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Darwin Correspondence Project

Otto Kratz

1830–80

German-born businessman in the United States. Superintendent of the Julius Robert Diffusion Process Company in New Orleans; the company was concerned with processing sugarcane. Took American citizenship, 1873. Was living in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, when he died in Halle.

Sources

Halle (Saale), Germany, deaths, 1874–1957 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2020)

letter from Otto Kratz, 12 July 1871

NUC

United States Federal Census 1870 (New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 10/378A) (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2020)

U.S. passport applications, 1795–1925 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2020)

Bibliography

NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.

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