Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Otto, Stephen 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net January 2, 2010, 1:16 pm Portland Weekly Observer, 14 Sep 1898 Stephen Otto, who enlisted in Co. I, 34th Mich., from Lake Odessa, died at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, a week ago Sunday. Otto was in an invalid’s chair being taken to a Red Cross building just as President McKinley was on his way to the train after a visit to the camp. Some one told him Otto would like to shake hands with him. He went there, shook his hand warmly and said to him kindly and heartily, “I hope, my good man, you’ll soon get well.” Otto was the last man the President spoke to on the camp ground. He appreciated the trouble the President had been to speak to him and spoke of the incident several times before he died the next day. Otto was buried at Lake Odessa last Friday, and a part of Co. I attended the funeral. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/o/otto2031nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb