Otto G Palmer was born in Lindau, Bavaria in May of 1833.
As a young man, Otto immigrated sometime between 1855-1860 to the United States of America from Baden-Baden, Germany, where Otto's father was the Burgermeister (Mayor). The 1860 Census shows Otto, 28 years old, single living in St Louis, Missouri with a profession as a Printer.
Otto served in the Union Army as an Adjutant General. He knew six languages and translated orders for the various commands. After the war he published a German newspaper in New Albany, Indiana, (Deutsche Zeitung).
"Several German papers were published in New Albany at various times. The most successful was the Deutsche Zeitung, published by Otto Palmer from 1875 until about 1905."
"In 1850 a German Democratic paper was established, but soon expired, to be succeeded by others, but their existence was ephemeral, although there were at that time some 5,000 German-Americans in the county, all of whom, probably, could read the German language. The late Otto Palmer was the last German editor to publish a Democratic paper in Floyd county. This fact goes to show how rapidly the population of German ancestry becomes thoroughly Americanized."
On January 11, 1865, Otto married Anna Catharina Murken, a German girl, at Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
They had four children:
Otto G Palmer, Jr b: Aug 1865 in Kentucky (Married Siddie E 1867-1916) d: 1929
Max Palmer b: FEB 1868 in Louisville, Kentucky
Alexander Palmer b: AUG 1870 in Georgia
Ida Palmer b: 1874 in Kentucky d: 1893
At 77 years of age, Otto died in New Albany, Indiana, on August 26, 1910.
LINKS:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=gregvdw&id=I4612
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/p/a/l/Cathy-Palmer-/index.html
http://cathy-palmer.blogspot.com/2011/02/otto-g-palmer-1833-1910.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=palmer&GSfn=gordon&GSmn=max&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=44572017&
- written by Cathy Jean Palmer, great granddaughter of Otto G Palmer (July 8, 2013)
As a young man, Otto immigrated sometime between 1855-1860 to the United States of America from Baden-Baden, Germany, where Otto's father was the Burgermeister (Mayor). The 1860 Census shows Otto, 28 years old, single living in St Louis, Missouri with a profession as a Printer.
Otto served in the Union Army as an Adjutant General. He knew six languages and translated orders for the various commands. After the war he published a German newspaper in New Albany, Indiana, (Deutsche Zeitung).
"Several German papers were published in New Albany at various times. The most successful was the Deutsche Zeitung, published by Otto Palmer from 1875 until about 1905."
"In 1850 a German Democratic paper was established, but soon expired, to be succeeded by others, but their existence was ephemeral, although there were at that time some 5,000 German-Americans in the county, all of whom, probably, could read the German language. The late Otto Palmer was the last German editor to publish a Democratic paper in Floyd county. This fact goes to show how rapidly the population of German ancestry becomes thoroughly Americanized."
On January 11, 1865, Otto married Anna Catharina Murken, a German girl, at Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
They had four children:
Otto G Palmer, Jr b: Aug 1865 in Kentucky (Married Siddie E 1867-1916) d: 1929
Max Palmer b: FEB 1868 in Louisville, Kentucky
Alexander Palmer b: AUG 1870 in Georgia
Ida Palmer b: 1874 in Kentucky d: 1893
At 77 years of age, Otto died in New Albany, Indiana, on August 26, 1910.
LINKS:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=gregvdw&id=I4612
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/p/a/l/Cathy-Palmer-/index.html
http://cathy-palmer.blogspot.com/2011/02/otto-g-palmer-1833-1910.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=palmer&GSfn=gordon&GSmn=max&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=44572017&
- written by Cathy Jean Palmer, great granddaughter of Otto G Palmer (July 8, 2013)
Otto G Palmer was born in Lindau, Bavaria in May of 1833.
As a young man, Otto immigrated sometime between 1855-1860 to the United States of America from Baden-Baden, Germany, where Otto's father was the Burgermeister (Mayor). The 1860 Census shows Otto, 28 years old, single living in St Louis, Missouri with a profession as a Printer.
Otto served in the Union Army as an Adjutant General. He knew six languages and translated orders for the various commands. After the war he published a German newspaper in New Albany, Indiana, (Deutsche Zeitung).
"Several German papers were published in New Albany at various times. The most successful was the Deutsche Zeitung, published by Otto Palmer from 1875 until about 1905."
"In 1850 a German Democratic paper was established, but soon expired, to be succeeded by others, but their existence was ephemeral, although there were at that time some 5,000 German-Americans in the county, all of whom, probably, could read the German language. The late Otto Palmer was the last German editor to publish a Democratic paper in Floyd county. This fact goes to show how rapidly the population of German ancestry becomes thoroughly Americanized."
On January 11, 1865, Otto married Anna Catharina Murken, a German girl, at Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
They had four children:
Otto G Palmer, Jr b: Aug 1865 in Kentucky (Married Siddie E 1867-1916) d: 1929
Max Palmer b: FEB 1868 in Louisville, Kentucky
Alexander Palmer b: AUG 1870 in Georgia
Ida Palmer b: 1874 in Kentucky d: 1893
At 77 years of age, Otto died in New Albany, Indiana, on August 26, 1910.
LINKS:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=gregvdw&id=I4612
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/p/a/l/Cathy-Palmer-/index.html
http://cathy-palmer.blogspot.com/2011/02/otto-g-palmer-1833-1910.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=palmer&GSfn=gordon&GSmn=max&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=44572017&
- written by Cathy Jean Palmer, great granddaughter of Otto G Palmer (July 8, 2013)
As a young man, Otto immigrated sometime between 1855-1860 to the United States of America from Baden-Baden, Germany, where Otto's father was the Burgermeister (Mayor). The 1860 Census shows Otto, 28 years old, single living in St Louis, Missouri with a profession as a Printer.
Otto served in the Union Army as an Adjutant General. He knew six languages and translated orders for the various commands. After the war he published a German newspaper in New Albany, Indiana, (Deutsche Zeitung).
"Several German papers were published in New Albany at various times. The most successful was the Deutsche Zeitung, published by Otto Palmer from 1875 until about 1905."
"In 1850 a German Democratic paper was established, but soon expired, to be succeeded by others, but their existence was ephemeral, although there were at that time some 5,000 German-Americans in the county, all of whom, probably, could read the German language. The late Otto Palmer was the last German editor to publish a Democratic paper in Floyd county. This fact goes to show how rapidly the population of German ancestry becomes thoroughly Americanized."
On January 11, 1865, Otto married Anna Catharina Murken, a German girl, at Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
They had four children:
Otto G Palmer, Jr b: Aug 1865 in Kentucky (Married Siddie E 1867-1916) d: 1929
Max Palmer b: FEB 1868 in Louisville, Kentucky
Alexander Palmer b: AUG 1870 in Georgia
Ida Palmer b: 1874 in Kentucky d: 1893
At 77 years of age, Otto died in New Albany, Indiana, on August 26, 1910.
LINKS:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=gregvdw&id=I4612
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/p/a/l/Cathy-Palmer-/index.html
http://cathy-palmer.blogspot.com/2011/02/otto-g-palmer-1833-1910.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=palmer&GSfn=gordon&GSmn=max&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=44572017&
- written by Cathy Jean Palmer, great granddaughter of Otto G Palmer (July 8, 2013)
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