Bio of Otto Sanders (b.1876)Wabasha Co., MN

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Note: This Biography is taken from the book "History of Wabasha County" 
copyrighted 1920.

Sanders - 

Otto Sanders, the present proprietor of the old Sanders farm in Glasgow 
Township, was born in section 4, this township, October 10, 1876, son of 
Henry and Caroline Sass Sanders. The parents were natives of Germany who 
were married in Wabasha County, in the early sixties. Henry, the father, 
arrived first, at Read's Landing, and for two or three years was engaged 
in rafting for the Knapp-Stout Lumber Company. He arrived in Wabasha 
County with nothing, but was economical and saved his money, and about 
the time of his marriage, when he gave up river work, settled on a partly 
improved farm of 160 acres in Glasgow Township, near Dumfries. The 
original buildings were log structures, but a frame house was later 
erected and occupied. There Henry Sanders died August 7, 1901, and Mrs. 
Caroline Sanders, March 6, 1906. He was never a very robust man, but 
worked hard and ably assisted by his wife. They were members of the 
Lutheran church in Wabasha and liberal in its support. They reared a 
family of seven children: Alfred, now deceased; Huldah, now Mrs. Conrad 
Johns of Eau Claire, Wis.; Etta, wife of George Gillis, a farmer near 
Plum City, Wis.; Margaret, wife of D. Zevley of Minneapolis, Minn.; Otto, 
on the home farm; Lena, wife of Theodore Miller of Highland Township, and 
Emma, wife of James Safford, a dairyman at Port Atkinson, Wis. Otto 
Sanders acquired his education in the district school, which he attended 
winters, in the summers his services being needed on the farm. He became 
his father's helper and has always remained on the old farm which he 
bought in 1906, and has since been engaged in general farming and stock 
raising on his own account, his stock raising mainly of Shorthorn cattle 
and Duroc swine. The farm, which is situated six miles southwest of 
Wabasha, has adequate buildings and a good operating equipment and Mr. 
Sanders is conducting it with profitable results. Aside from his 
interests therein he is a stockholder in the Greenfield Farmers Telephone 
Co. Mr. Sanders was married September 8, 1908, to Rose Elizabeth Wilde, 
who was born in Theilman, Wabasha County, January 7, 1890, daughter of 
August and Rose Wilde, of West Albany Township. Of this union three 
children have been born: Joseph Otto, January 21, 1911; Violet Rose, 
April 23, 1913, and Richard Donald, April 28, 1920. Mr. Sanders was 
reared a Lutheran but is a member of the German Reformed church of 
Wabasha. Politically he is a Republican.

Note: This biography was taken from the book "History of Wabasha County" 
copyrighted 1920. 
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