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ID: 3095
CATNUM: 3286
IsPhotographer: True
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NameLast: Ping
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BirthMonth: 4
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BirthYear: 1883
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OriginalBirthState: IN
OriginalBirthCounty: Brown
OriginalBirthNation: USA
DeathMonth: 10
DeathDay: 28
DeathYear: 1975
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OriginalDeathCity: Columbus
OriginalDeathState: IN
OriginalDeathCounty: Bartholomew
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Parents: Logan and Emaline (Henderson) Ping
Children: Bernice Irene Sluss and Bryce Dwight Ping
Spouse1Name: Clara Allice Ewers
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:23 PM
CreatedBy: sa
LastModifiedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:23 PM
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ID: 3095
PersonID: 3095
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StartYear: 1900
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EndYear: 1940
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EducationCareer: at age 17 bought Sears & Roebuck Monarch No. 2 folding box camera by mail for $12.95 and learned how to use it. It came with lens, shutter, and double plate holder (5 x 7 in.), plus instruction book.
FamilyInPhotography: 1st cousin (E. Grant Ping)
OriginalNotes: Social Security Records: birth (Apr. 4, 1883) and death (Oct. 1975) dates, Columbus last residence

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 December 2020), memorial page for Otto Ping (3 Apr 1883 - 28 Oct 1975), Find a Grave Memorial no. 7845418, citing Christiansburg Cemetery, Christiansburg, Brown County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by In Loving Memory Of My Beloved Son Gary (contributor 46547937) .
States that he died in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana. 

Otto Ping: Photographer of Brown County, Indiana, 1900-1940 by W. Douglas Hartley (Indiana Historical Society, 1994): biographical information; He was born in log cabin in Brown Co. In time, his parents built a house in Christiansburg. After marrying Clara, they lived with his parents. The "big house" in Christiansburg burned to the ground in 1912. In March 1912, they had a sale of personal property and moved to South Dakota to work on the farm of his brother, Freeman. In the fall, Clara and baby Irene returned to Indiana, while Otto went to Illinois to shuck corn. He returned to Brown Co. later that year. Photography was a side occupation, Ping had various jobs including canning and selling farm produce, selling canning equipment, organized Home Products Association that offered canning demonstrations to prospects and provided opportunity to sell pressure cookers. Canning plant in village of Pike's Peak. Cream route in Indianapolis. Sold fruit trees, routeman for Watkins Products (home remedies), poultry business was Ping's most consistently profitable business.
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:23 PM
CreatedBy: sa
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PersonID: 3095
CATNUM: 3286
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City: Christiansburg
State: IN
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 6:02:58 PM
CreatedBy: sa
LastModifiedDate: 10/30/2021 6:07:12 PM
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Name: Otto Ping
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County: Brown
Country: USA
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OriginalSource: Otto Ping: Photographer of Brown County, Indiana, 1900-1940 by W. Douglas Hartley (Indiana Historical Society, 1994): p. 1-3, bought Monarch No. 2 folding box camera for $12.95 from Sears & Roebuck mail order at age 17 (1900). It has 5 x 7 in. double plate holder. He traveled to residents of Van Buren Township as itinerant photographer. For taking, developing, printing, and delivering a photograph her received about $1. He made many of his most memorable images during first decade of century when he was still living at home. After marrying Clara in 1910 they lived with his parents in Christiansburg. The house burned in 1912, destroying his three cameras. This put a halt to his photography for about 3 yrs. In Aug. 1915 he bought another camera for $7.35. [He had purchased another camera before this, after the fire.] 
p. 85 His cousin, E. Grant Ping, 19 yrs. his elder, had been local photographer and probably influenced him in choosing to make photographs professionally. By 1900 Grant had moved to Mason City, IL, and made livlihood as barber.
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