Alice (Hunter) Ott, undated

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Alice (Hunter) Ott was born to Cyrus and Eliza (Ramsay) Hunter in Riverside, Iowa on September 27, 1870. In 1897, three years after Eliza's death, Alice and her father moved to Coralville, Iowa. She was the city's first postmistress.

Alice married William Dudley Ott on October 13, 1891. William worked as a civil engineer. They had two sons: Robert and Edward Creighton "Mike". William Ott died on May 7, 1945. Alice followed him in December of 1964. She was 96 years old (Iowa City Press-Citizen, 1964; Lovetinsky et al., p. 119; Ancestry Library).

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Coralville Public Library. Coralville Digital History Library.

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Johnson County, Iowa

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“Alice (Hunter) Ott, undated,” Coralville Digital History Library, accessed April 18, 2024, https://coralvilledigitalhistory.omeka.net/items/show/202.

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