ïPARA âPAR@ ` ïTEXT ` }Ottendorfer, Anna Sartorius Uhl1815╨1884publisher and philanthropistBorn on February 13, 1815, in Wƒrzburg, Bavaria (now Germany), Anna Sartorius (some sources give her surname as Behr) received a scanty education. About 1836 she emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City. Sources are divided over whether her marriage to Jacob Uhl, a printer, took place before or after she came to America. In either case, by 1844 they had bought a print shop and along with it the contract for printing the weekly New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung. They bought the newspaper outright the following year. Together╤Anna Uhl shared in the editorial, business, and even composing room and press work involved╤they built the paper into a successful institution that was distributed to other cities with sizable German communities as well. It soon became a tri-weekly and then in 1849 a daily. From the death of her husband in 1852 Anna Uhl managed the entire enterprise. In July 1859 she married Oswald Ottendorfer, a Moravian immigrant who had joined the Staats-Zeitung in 1851 and had become editor in 1858. She served thereafter as general manager of the paper. In later years Anna Ottendorfer took up philanthropy. In 1875 she contributed $100,000 to build the Isabella Home for elderly women of German ancestry in Astoria, Long Island. A similar gift in 1881 established the Hermann Uhl Memorial Fund, named for a deceased son, to support the study of German in American schools, principally through the German╨American Teachers╒ College of Milwaukee. To the New York German Hospital she gave a women╒s pavilion in 1882 and a German dispensary and reading room in 1884, gifts totaling $225,000. She gave lesser amounts to other institutions in Brooklyn, Newark, and elsewhere, and in her will left another $250,000 to various German╨American institutions. She died in New York City on April 1, 1884. ╓styl `
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