Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Oswald, Otto F. 1883 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

                  OTTO F. OSWALD.

    Otto F. Oswald, well-known member of the firm of Oswald & Rice, proprietors
of the steam laundry at New Ulm, the only establishment of the kind in the city,
is a native son of New Ulm, having been born in that city on February 14, 1883,
son of Gottlieb C. and Wilhelmina (Wolf) Oswald, well-known residents of New
Ulm, a further history of which family is set out in a biographical sketch
relating to Gottlieb C. Oswald, presented elsewhere in this volume.

    Otto F. Oswald received his education in the New Ulm schools and upon
leaving school took employment with the Burg Cigar Company, with which he was
connected for fifteen years, the last five years of which he acted as a
traveling salesman for the company. He then engaged in the saloon business at
Cobden, this county, and was thus engaged for about a year, at the end of which
time he returned to New Ulm and bought a half interest in a saloon there. Two
years later he sold his interest in that place and on January 1, 1915, bought an
interest in the New Ulm steam laundry, with which he ever since has been
connected and in which business he is doing well. Oswald & Rice have established
agencies for their laundry in about forty towns in southern Minnesota and South
Dakota and have an extensive business. In connection with their establishment
they also operate a modern dry-cleaning plant, and have worked up a fine
business in that line.

    In 1902 Otto F. Oswald was united in marriage to Florence Gilley, daughter
of Joseph Gilley and wife, and to this union five children have been born, Lena,
Laura, Delbert, Arnold and Melvin. Mr. Oswald is a Republican and gives a good
citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has never been an aspirant
for public office. He is a member of the New Ulm Turnverein, of which he is the
vice-president, and is one of the most active members of the local branch of the
Sons of Hermann, which he has served in the capacity of president and takes a
warm interest in its affairs. Mr. Oswald is second lieutenant of Burg's Battery,
a local battery which has been in existence for fifty years.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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