Husband Dr. John B. Otto 1
Born: 20 Dec 1785 - Reading, Berks Co, PA 1
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Father: Dr. John Augustus Otto (1751-1834) 1 2
Mother: Catharine Hitner ( -Abt 1834) 1
Marriage: 1810 3
Wife Esther G. Witman 4
Born: Abt 1796
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Died: 10 Jul 1880 3
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Father: Judge William Witman (1772-1828) 5
Mother: Mary Green (1770-1835) 6
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1 M John Augustus Otto 3
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2 M Bodo Otto 3
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3 F Emma Otto 3
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Spouse: S. Filbert ( - ) 3
4 M Henry M. Otto 3
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5 F Maria Otto 3
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Spouse: Jacob Geise ( - ) 3
6 F Matilda Otto 3
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Spouse: George W. Miller ( - ) 3
General Notes: Husband - Dr. John B. Otto
He was graduated from Princeton College, read medicine under Dr. Wistar, of Philadelphia, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1808. He began the practice of medicine in his native town, where for half a century he enjoyed a large and varied professional experience. He was a man of more than ordinary energy and activity, and possessed remarkable powers of endurance, both physical and mental.
For a short time during the second war with Great Britain he acted as surgeon in the army, and was with the troops at York when General Ross was marching on Baltimore. He devoted himself to his profession so assiduously and absorbingly that he scarcely had a leisure hour, even for the repose so necessary to the human system; and yet he was never weary of his work, but always ready to answer the calls of his patients with cheerfulness and alacrity. He was a gentleman of the old school. He would rather have suffered any wrong than inflict an injury. Singularly inoffensive and peaceful in disposition and life, unostentatious in manners and unambitious in aim, year after year he pursued the rounds of visitation to the sick and dying, doing whatever skill and assiduous attention could accomplish to relieve suffering and heal disease.
"Perhaps no man ever lived and died in Reading," remarks the Journal, "who conferred more substantial good on so great a number, or who received less in return for the good bestowed. It is speaking in moderation to say that the services rendered gratuitously to the poor, if they had been repaid in money, would of themselves have constituted an estate; but he had a richer reward,-the blessings of them that were ready to perish fell upon him."
He died aged seventy-three years. The remains were conveyed to the Charles Evans Cemetery. The houses in the square where the deceased resided and on North Fifth Street were closed during the passage of the funeral cortege as a mark of respect to the memory of one who had been so long identified with Reading that his death was regarded as a public loss.