Chosen by the early settlers in honor of Otsego, N.Y., from which place a number had emigrated.  Name means "welcome water" or "place where meetings are held."

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[Source: p. 833 of History of Columbia County, Wisconsin; Milwaukee Sentinel, Aug. 29, 1939.]