Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Severns, Otto K 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Severns, Otto K. - All of the leading automobile companies have reliable 
representatives in the centers of civilization to handle their business and 
accommodate their customers. The responsibility resting upon these special 
agents is heavy, for upon them depends the success or failure of that certain 
make in their territory. One of the leading business men of Morris is Otto K. 
Severns, agent for the Badger automobiles, which are manufactured at Columbus, 
Wis. He was born September 28, 1886, in Wauponsee Township, a son of Horace H. 
and Laura (Lattimer) Severns, natives of Grundy County. Horace H. Severns was 
also born and married in Grundy County. For a number of years he was a farmer 
of Wauponsee Township, but in 1910 he came to Morris, where he is now 
operating the Morris Amusement Pavilion. Mr. and Mrs. Horace H. Severns were 
the parents of children as follows: Lottie, Mrs. W. A. Thomas, of Morris; Otto 
K.; and Altha, at home.

Otto K. Severns attended the public schools of Morris and helped his father 
until he was eighteen years old.  At that time he commenced working for 
neighboring farmers, and thus continued for two years. He then went into an 
automobile garage in Kansas City, Mo., where he was employed for two years. 
Following this he worked on a farm in Kansas, and then returned to Grundy 
County and was engaged on his father's farm for four years. At the expiration 
of that time he came to Morris and assumed the agency for the machine he is 
now representing.

On April 13, 1907, Mr. Severns was married to Blanche Button, of Wauponsee 
Township, a daughter of George and Alice (Brockum) Button.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Severns became the parents of one child: Glenn A., born July 4, 1909. Mr. 
Severns is a member of the Congregational Church. In politics he is a 
Republican. His fraternal associations are with the Odd Fellows, No. 134, of 
Morris. Mr. Severns is a live young business man, and under his care the 
affairs of his company are in excellent condition, and he is constantly 
placing new machines and keeping his customers satisfied with those which they 
have purchased.

page 899

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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