author

Otto K. Wohlers

b. 1893

Best known as the co-author of a practical 1919 guide to woodturning, this early 20th-century writer helped shape a hands-on, classroom-friendly introduction to the craft. His surviving record is slim, which gives his work an old workshop feel that still comes through today.

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A Course In Wood Turning

A Course In Wood Turning

by Archie Seldon Milton, Otto K. Wohlers

About the author

Otto K. Wohlers is a little-known early 20th-century author remembered primarily for A Course in Wood Turning (1919), written with Archie S. Milton. Library and catalog records consistently identify him as being born in 1893 and credit him as a joint author of the book.

The book was published by The Bruce Publishing Company in Milwaukee and was designed as a structured introduction to woodturning. In its own prefatory material, the work presents itself as growing out of problems given to high school pupils, which suggests a practical, teaching-oriented approach rather than a purely theoretical one.

Beyond that collaboration, reliable biographical details about Wohlers are hard to confirm from the sources available here. Even so, his name remains attached to a durable manual that has stayed in circulation through library archives, Project Gutenberg, and later reprints, giving him a modest but lasting place in woodworking literature.