Person:Otto Touse (2)

TOUSE, Otto G.

    At his home 914 Court Street at 8 o'clock last evening died Otto G. Touse after an illness of about one year. He had been in the mercantile business in West Utica for dozen years and was well known and highly respected. Mr. Touse was born in Darmstadt, Hessen, April 18, 1861 and lived there until he was eight years old when he came to this country with his parents who located at Franklin Iron Works, now Franklin Springs. He wsa brought up and educated there and was for some time engaged in the business of buying raw furs. He came to Utica in 1895 and went into the grocery business. For years he conducted a store on Plant Street and then he moved to the southwest corner of Court and Schuyler Streets where he was in businees for nine years and for the last three years in the southeast corner. His son was for some time engaged in business with him. Mr. Touse was a long buyer for the Bach Fur Company of New York. He was also a member of the Commerical Travelers' Mutual Accident Association of America. He was a member of St. Matthew's Luthern Church and of the Young Men's Association  connected with it. He married Miss Amelia Parker of Peck's Corner who is living. He leaves a son Oscar P. Touse and a daughter Irene, wife of H. H. Willis, both of Utica, and two grandchildren, Elva and Stewart Touse. His father Frederick Touse of this city also survives.