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Notes on the Otto and Hage Families by Belle Otto Terry (BOT)
Note: Louis L Otto, brother of Belle finished manuscript (LLO)
John Otto became very deaf and he had a hand tremor (familial palsy).
Note 17 Cornelius and Johanna Baker Otto came to West Sayville from Holland in 1852, with their four sons, and settled in West Sayville on Atlantic Avenue. Cornelius was a fisherman. He and his wife were charter members of the Dutch Reformed Church when it was formed in 1860. Three of their sons married three sisters, Nell, Cornelia, and Maria Hage.
Many of the descendants of this couple continued to live on the south shore of Long Island. In the late 1920’s and early 193O’s, the women of the third generation, with our Grandma Otto, used to get together two or three times a year for which I called a “Cousin party”. I always hoped there would be one while I was home on vacation. There is in the Hage family line an ability to tell a story well. These parties were hilarious affairs because so many good family anecdotes would be told and retold. Much of what I know about my father’s cousins came from these delightful tea parties. Among those usually present were Grandma Otto, Aunt Anna Tinner, Aunt Nellie’s group (Jane Otto Otto, Westerbeke, Rogers, Mantha, Skinner, and Phanemiller), Josephine Terry Fitzgerald, and Alice Isles, Annie Seerveld Brown and Minnie Dykstra, and my mother (who only married into the family), and sometimes I (BOT) was there.
THE OTTO FAMILY TREE,
For the US only, no Holland information available 28
Based upon information from Cornelia Hage Otto, gravestones in Sayville Union Cemetery, items in the Suffolk County News, and the faulty recollections of descendants. Alvina Hage Terry wrote a long report on early family history and the conditions encountered when they were the first Dutch family to come to the area in 1848, but it does not seem to be available.: indicates no children.
The Otto Family
Cornelius Otto m. Johanna Baker.(in Holland) (Came to US in 1852)
Edward (1829-1907 ) m. Nell Hage (1839-1926)
e (1863-1957) m. (1) Frank Nohowel Frank P m.' ? e ( m. (2) William Otto (no relation)
Alice m. William Westerbeke
William m. ?I child
Jean (1888-1958) m. Frank Rodgers :
Nellie Frances m. William Mantha
Alice m. ? Robert m. ?
Josephine m. Skinner
Minnie m. Matthew DeGraaf (see DeGraaf family, P.7) Edward m. ?
Cornelius m. ? daughter m. Frank Phanemiller George Eleanor Others
John (1.20.1833-~.21.190~) m. Cornelia M~ (10.P8.1843-6-3-1931) note 18
Anna (2.12.1864-12.50.1950)m. (1) . . · Parkhill
Herbert (! ?-19 ) m. Anna Westerbeke
BruceR~3ph a
Minnie Marietta m~ John 1867-1927)m. (2] Ernest Tinner :qstep-daughtersManson
Proffett J m. Ella St. JohnJohn (1897-1967)J
ohnmCornelius (1877-1940) m. Rose Flynn William (died in childhood) m. (1) Jeanette . · Rita ( ) m. Richard Schroeter Jane Anne5 othersGloria m. ?? childrenm. 2) Pearl . . .?page 2
( The Otto Family 2 O children of John & Cornelia Hage Otto continued / Thomas Nelson (1873-1949) m. Julia Halt (1882-1950)
~r~ 2/ Virginia (8.17.1900-10.16.1974) m. Jewett Holt Smith Virginia ( 2.16.1898-4.14.67 )
Bernice (Blondie) (1906-1915)
Julia (1917- ) m.. David C. Wallace
Julia Hope m. ~ . .?
3 daughters
Bruce ~ ) m. 4 children Louis Alfred (6.$.1875-11.15.1930)m. Belle DeGraff (1876-1937)(.see listing under Degraff Family. page 8)
Bertram (18 -19 ) m. Margaret Bennett (18 -196 )
Bertram (190-) m. ( ) Leota
:~eonard (1835-1~) m. Jeanette ? (1837-1902) :
Thomas (6.10.1840-6.10.1911) m. Hannah (8.6.1852-8.6.1900)
Thomas Jr. (1884-1959) m. Josephine ? (1889-1966)
~---Grace (1~S-1950) m. William Tucker Jr. ·
~---Eleanor (1874-1956) m. Edward Van Vessel Nellie :
Alfred(189 - 19 ) m.....? daughter Nellie : Barbara (1887-1946) m. Cornelius Beebe (1858-1940)
Adrianna ( ) m. Frank Strange
Ralph ( )
m..Henry (1846-1917) m. Maria Hage i1846-19~?)
Lewis (1873-1943) m. Lavinia (1873-1933)
Henry (Doodle) m.... Quaak J~/oTZ22 Kwaak?
Winnie m. Eugene Flanagan
Lillian : Naomi me . ·
Stanley (1901-1959} m. Deborah Weeks (1902-1949) children? Minnie (1876-1963) m. Mark Clemency (1865-1911)
Beatrice daughter
page 3, Otto Family
Dorothy (1926 children?
Lillian (1926- children ?
John Peter IX (19Oh
-Susan R. (1932-) m. Willard E. Beauchamp) m. David D. Acker) m. Mary Florence (Polly) Hepburn) Catherine H. (1936- ) Priscilla (1939- )
William (18 -19 ) m. Edith ?
Leslie (190 - ) m.Alice
_(Almina) (18 - 19 ) m. John Terry
Josephine (18 -19 ) m. ? Firtzgerald
Elizabeth (19107- ) m. (1) . I [ Dorothy I Elizabeth m° (2) . . ?Jack (19127-19) N
~ ?~osephine m. (2)
~&a. Weeks : Bessie (18 -19 )m.. ? . Isles
Alice (19 -19 ) m. Ed . . . ?
George m. ? children
?The HAGE Family
Cornelius Hage ~m, Jacomina (Minna or Minkya) VanVessem
Married in Holland, came to Sayville from Bruinisse in 6.6.1849,the first Dutch family to come to the area.
Ne11(1839-1926) m. Edward Otto (1829-1907)See the Otto family for descendants.
Cornelia (10.28.18h3-~.3.1931)m. John Otto (1.20.1833-5.21.1905)See the Otto family for descendants.
Maria(1846-1917) m. Henry Otto (1846-1917)See the Otto family for descendants.
Louise (18 -19 ) m. George Howell Note 24
Lillian (18 -19 ) m. John ? several children
Amy m. Dennis B. Turner 2 daughters
Myra m. ? Guthrie Franklin many others Marion m. ? children?
Joanna (3.18.1853-10.24.1921) m. John Seerveld (1850-1929)
~E~ Altoina (Minnie) m. Adrianus (Ben) Dykstra
Ben Alma Anna (Annie) m. Walter Brown Helen m. ? Munkelwitz
Walter Jr. m. ?
Frank m. ? Edward C. (1880-1972) m. ?
Lester
Addie (18 -191 ) m. John P. Radcliff VII
~ ~g John P° VIII m. Lillian ?
Clara (18 -1968) m. Lincoln Work (18 -1968)
Why did they immagrate?
Emigration to North America
The beginning Dutch people settled in North America from 1624 onwards. When in 1664 the English captured New Amsterdam and the colony of New Netherland, the influx of new groups of Dutch people to the continent came to a halt. This did not change until the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Why emigrate? An important motive to emigrate at that time were the adverse economical conditions in the home country. The Napoleonic Wars had left the country exhausted. The Secession War with Belgium, the burden of taxation, the potato blight of 1845-47 and the drought that followed it resulted in high food prices, causing grinding poverty in large parts of the country. The working classes in particular had a hard time of it. Even so, there was yet another reason to leave.From 1816 onwards, various government regulations were introduced that had a bearing on religious life. As a response to the government's intervention, a movement developed within the Dutch Reformed Church, pleading for a return to more orthodox beliefs. This resulted in the group's secession form the Dutch Reformed Church. They decided to leave the Netherlands and settle in new communities in America. These communities in the American Midwest exerted a great appeal on the relatives left behind in the home country.
Numbers of migrants The size of the stream of emigrants to the New World did not depend exclusively on the situation in the Netherlands. The prospects in America played an important role as well. The outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the attendant economic crisis immediately resulted in a drop in emigration. On the other hand, the Homestead Act of 1862, promising cheap land to immigrants, revived interest.The exact number of Dutch emigrants leaving for North America in the nineteenth century is unclear. Registers of emigrants in the country of origin as well as in the destination country are incomplete and not very well-organized. Robert P. Swieringa calculated that in the period from 1835 until 1880 between 75,000 and 100,000 Dutchmen arrived in their new home country. The peak occurred in the eighteen-eighties. These are considerable numbers seen from a Dutch perspective, though compared with the total of c. 10 million Europeans arriving in the US during the same period, the Dutch share is not very impressive.
Emigration for religious reasons A conflict about religious doctrine
In 1814, article 133 was included in the first Constitution of the United Netherlands, stating: "The Christian Reformed Religion is that of the Sovereign." The article was removed in 1815 when predominantly Roman-Catholic Belgium became part of the Kingdom. Nevertheless, what is now called the Dutch Reformed Church remained the only recognized protestant denomination in the Netherlands for a long period of time. All governing members of the House of Orange were and still are members of this church.King William I also occupied himself with religious issues. He ordered rules governing church life to be drawn up for the Dutch Reformed Church. On 7 January 1816 these rules, the General Regulations for the Government of the Reformed Church, were approved by Royal Decree. Many protestants saw this as direct interference in their church affairs.After 1816, more government regulations followed that affected church life. The schooling and examining of ministers, for instance, were brought under state supervision.
The Secession At the theological faculty in Leiden a group of students actively opposed the government regulations. They found their leader in Hendrik Pieter Scholte. Also after they had graduated and had been appointed as ministers, the group kept in touch and continued their opposition collectively. Among the students were future leaders of emigrant groups such as Albertus Christiaan van Raalte and Anthonie van Brummelkamp.The struggle against the enforced reformation and for the right to remain orthodox broke out after 1834, when minister Hendrick de Cock from Ulrum together with his congregation publicly seceded from the Reformed Church. In a solemn meeting the faithful signed 'the Act of Secession and Return'. Their example was soon followed by many congregations, including those of Van Raalte and Scholte.
Ministers in revolt The Dutch government tried to force the secessionists back into the bosom of the Reformed Church. This was done through a special interpretation of the Constitution, by stating that the freedom of religion, included in the Constitution of 1814, applied only to existing denominations. This made it impossible for the secessionists to appeal to the Constitution. When this did not produce the desired outcome, the government proceeded to dig up some old articles from de Code Napoleon, in particular those articles specifying that to organise and hold meetings of more than twenty people, government permission was required. Referring to these articles the police could legally swoop down on church services on a regular basis and arrest the ministers and their followers.After the abdication of King William I (1840) the persecution diminished, and even came to a complete stop after 1848, when a new Constitution was introduced. Nevertheless, for many secessionists this came too late. They had already decided to leave the oppressive conditions in the Netherlands behind them. They wished to establish new communities and found that America offered the most favourable opportunities for this. They were supported and inspired in their aspirations by a brochure entitled: 'Why do we promote emigration to North America and not to Java?'. In this brochure Van Raalte and Brummelkamp justified their choice.To realize their ideals the two militant ministers founded the 'Christian Society for Emigrants to the United States of North America'.
In search of freedom The adverse economic conditions in the Netherlands helped to remove any doubts people might still have had about trying their luck elsewhere. In some cases part of a local congregation decided to book their passage, embark and leave for America together. In this way the ministers hoped to prevent the faithful becoming 'distracted'. By acting collectively they could, once they had arrived at their destination, support each other and hear the Gospel together in their mother tongue.This was a variant on the old Dutch proverb 'eendracht maakt macht' (Union is Strength).Thus the ministers' followers settled closely together in the states of the Midwest. Even to date Dutch sounding family names and place-names bear witness to this.The secessionists did not make up the majority of migrants leaving in the nineteenth century. Most of the c. 100.000 migrants trying their luck in America during this period were not involved in the church secession. They dispersed, with or without their families, across the vast continent and merged into the immigrant society.
History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The Seceder Movement
A new religious movement called the Seceders emerged in 1834 prompted by a deep concern for the creeping liberalism in the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church that was moving away from its deep commitment to Calvinism. The Dutch government attempted to repress the pious Seceder movement and religious persecution led to a great wave of immigration to America. Total congregations settled in the farming regions of the mid-west favoring Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan. They were led by men such as Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (1811-1876) and Henry Scholte (1805-1868), the founder of the Holland Colony of Marion County. Nearly half of the Dutch immigrants between 1845 and 1849 belonged to the dissenting Protestant Seceder movement.
Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: Catholic immigrants led by Theodore J. van den Broek
In 1848 Father Theodore J. van den Broek (1783-1851) led a large group of Catholic Dutch emigrants who settled in the areas around the communities of Little Chute, Holland Town, and Green Bay in Wisconsin.
History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The 'Hungry Forties
'Holland, like many other European countries, suffered from serious crop failures including the potato blight (1845-1849) which led to great poverty, hunger, disease and destitution, referred to as the ' Hungry Forties'. Dutch Immigration to America increased again following the European Revolutions of 1848 as peasants remonstrated against the terrible conditions. The failure of the Dutch revolutionists led to a small wave of political refugees who fled to America.
History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The Second Wave of Immigration
During the second wave of Dutch immigration during the mid 1800's over 250,000 Dutch immigrants entered the United States - it was called the Great Migration. Among Dutch emigrant family heads, 60% were farmers and agricultural laborers. Holland had been hit by the agricultural revolution and the influx of cheap American wheat leading to a massive decline in grain prices. The flow was halted by the outbreak of the American Civil War. Those who came after the Civil War tended to be individuals who were stimulated by letters from family and friends already established in America. Up to this period there were no immigration restrictions in America.
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