Otto Berry

Twenty-five-year-old Otto Glen Berry worked as a carpenter at the Advance Thresher Co. and was a member of Modern Woodsmen of America. He was visiting home of his sister-in-law Maggie (Margaret) Niebling Berry at 236 Lincoln Avenue.  His sister Emma also perished in the fire.

Otto and Emma's funerals were held at the First Presbyterian Church.

Carl, Otto and Emma Berry were three of eight children born to Charles and Ella Walker Berry. All three were brought up in the village of Emmet, Michigan. Today's Emmet has around 87 households with many of its residents commute to larger nearby cities. Agriculture is still an important part of the economy, as it was in 1903.

Charles Berry, father of Otto and Emma, died four years after the fire, at age sixty-one.  It was reported that he became ill when his children died.