| Title |
Wynkoop, Otto |
| Alternate title |
Winkopp, Otto |
| Date |
October 7, 1844 - March 7, 1915 |
| Description |
Otto Wynkoop (Winkopp) born on October 7, 1844 in Baden, Germany worked in Philadelphia as a lithographer between 1866 and
the early 1900s. Apprenticed in Baden, Wynkoop first worked for Breuker & Kessler from 1866 to 1874, before relocating to
Potsdamer & Co. where he worked until 1885. In 1885, the Potsdamer firm merged with the Ketterlinus Company retaining Wynkoop
and other of his older colleagues. At Ketterlinus, Wynkoop first served as a transferrer, then foreman, a position he continued
in until his retirement for health reasons a few years before his death.
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He was married to Caroline with whom he had two children Otto, Jr. (b. 1872) and Bertha (b. 1876). He resided at 434 Garden
(now Darien) Street during the 1870s and died of nephritis in Philadelphia on March 7, 1915. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Breuker & Kessler; Ketterlinus, Eugene and Potsdamer & Co. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1870, 1880 and 1900 |
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National Lithographer (April 1915): 43 |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1868, 1873-1880 |
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Philadelphia Death Certificate, 1915 # 5492 |
