1. Anna Ottendorfer was a German-American journalist and philanthropist.
12 Facts About Anna Ottendorfer
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Anna Ottendorfer was associated with the development of the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung into a major newspaper.
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Anna Ottendorfer came to the United States in 1837, and remained for a year with her brother in Niagara County, New York.
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Anna Ottendorfer declined several offers for the Staats-Zeitung, and, by her own energy and sagacity and the co-operation of Oswald Ottendorfer, who became editor in 1858 and whom Anna married in 1859, made it one of the chief papers in the United States.
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Anna Ottendorfer took an active part in the management of the paper until almost the time of her death.
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Anna Ottendorfer devoted much attention to charitable enterprises, her main interests being the welfare of women and children and German culture.
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Anna Ottendorfer contributed $40,000 to an educational fund, built the women's pavilion of the German Hospital, New York City, at a cost of $75,000, and gave $100,000 for the German Dispensary.
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In 1883, Anna Ottendorfer received a gold medal from the Empress Augusta of Germany in recognition of her aid to flood victims in that country in 1882 and 1883.
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Anna Ottendorfer died at her home at 7 East 17th Street.
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Anna Ottendorfer's funeral was the largest up to that time for a woman in New York City; the eulogy was by Carl Schurz.
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Anna Ottendorfer left an estate of $3,000,000 and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Anna Ottendorfer's granddaughter Carola Woerishoffer was a labor activist and a major donor to Bryn Mawr College.