Madison County NeArchives Biographies.....Austin, Otto George 1888 - 
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Otto George Austin

Born at Colton, South Dakota, December 29, 1888, Otto George Austin is the son
of Austin Thomas Austin and Anne Christine (Clauson) Austin. His father, who is
a farmer, was born at Telemarken, Norway, May 21, ]848. His mother was born at
Telemarken, July 26, 1855, and died at Colton, October 26, 1927.

Mr. Austin attended rural school near Colton and was a student at Luther College
Preparatory School, Decorah, Iowa. He received the A. B. degree at Luther
College in 1912, and was graduated from the Theological Seminary at St. Paul,
Minnesota, in 1916. He has been prominent in religious activities for the past
17 years and has held various pastorates, among them: Trinity Lutheran Church at
Sisseton, including Peever, Buffalo Lake, Bethel and Norway, South Dakota,
1916-22; Lake Park, and Nunda Lutheran churches at Nunda, South Dakota, 1922-27;
and Trinity Lutheran Church, at Newman Grove, Nebraska, 1927, to the present time.

During 1912 and 1913, Mr. Austin taught in the parochial school at Bode, Iowa.
He is a member of the National Geographic Society, was executive secretary of
the Roberts County Chapter of the Red Cross, and is affiliated with ithe
Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. During the World War he served as a member
of the exemption board of Roberts County and was secretary of the local chapter
of the Red Cross. His sports are volley ball and tennis.

He was married to Esther Lillian Johnson at Vermillion, South Dakota, December
30, 1919. Mrs. Austin, who was born at Vermillion, South Dakota, March 7, 1895,
was formerly prominent in educational affairs as a teacher, and is now an active
leader in church affairs. She served as president of the Omaha Circuit Women’s
Missionary Federation of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, for a time.
Her father, J. E. Johnson, whose ancestry was Swedish, served in the House of
Representatives of South Dakota from 1905 to 1907. They have the following
children: Arthur Thomas, born June 23, 1921; Margaret Esther, born January 12,
1923; Paul Richard, born March 23, 1925; Dorothy Lucile, born April 6, 1927; and
Donald LeRoy, born April 6, 1927. Residence: Newman Grove. 


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932

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