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Born 1860
From Past and present of Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa (1904)
OTTO SELZER.
Otto Selzer, whose tragic death on Wednesday evening, March 16, 1904, caused widespread regret among his many friends in Sioux ( 'ity, was well known in business circles of northwestern Iowa and other sections of the west, and in social life had gained warm regard and esteem in the city in which he had long made his home. He was born in Sioux City in July, 1860, and attended the public schools, but when only a boy he went abroad and studied the brewing business in Germany, where are located the best plants of the kind in the world. He put forth every effort to gain
As printed in Past and present of Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa (1904). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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