Dr. Otto Max August Klotz

1874 - 1921  (47 years)

• Name	Otto Max August Klotz
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	1874	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Max Klotz
  Residence	1921	Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-129441
  Died	31 Jan 1921	Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Cause: double lobar pneumonia (9 days) & cardiac failure (8 hours)
  Buried	Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario
  Person ID	I129441	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Dr. Otto Julius Klotz,   b. 31 Mar 1852, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Dec 1923, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Maria Caroline Widenmann,   b. 1853, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States ,   d. 14 Dec 1928, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 75 years)
  Married	4 Dec 1873  [3]
  Family ID	F31944	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  DR. MAX O. KLOTZ In the death of Dr. Max O. Klotz, Ottawa loses a prominent surgeon and the Association one of its active members. Dr. Klotz was born in Preston, Ont. in 1874, a son of Otto J. Klotz, Director of the Dominion Observatory, and graduated at Toronto in 1895. He has practiced in Ottawa since that date where he acquired an extensive practice and attained many honorary offices in the gift of the profession. For several years he restricted his work to surgery. He was surgeon of the Protestant Hospital, and at the time of his death was President of the Ottawa Medico-Chirurgical Society. He represented his district in the Ontario Medical Council for several years, and was President of the Council in 1913. Dr. Oscar Klotz, formerly of McGill University, now of the Rockefeller Institute, is a brother. Canadian Medical Association Journal 1921 August; 11(8): 594\endash 595.

  
  

• Sources

  [S297] Census - ON, Waterloo, Preston - 1881, Page 29. [S1859] Canadian Medical Association Journal, "Obituary of Dr. Max O. Klotz," 1921 August; 11(8): 594–595. [S1612] Book - Prominent men of Canada a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life, and in the commerce and industry of Canada, biography of Otto J. Klotz.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1874 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1921 - Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: double lobar pneumonia (9 days) & cardiac failure (8 hours) - 31 Jan 1921 - Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth