Otto’s Sausage Kitchen was founded by Otto Eichentopf in 1922. Eichentopf was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1911, at the age of 21. He opened his first business in Aberdeen, Washington and married his longtime friend Selma soon after. The couple’s son, Edwin, was born in 1919, and the family relocated to Portland, Oregon in 1921. Within a year of arrival, Eichentopf established his meat market in Portland’s Woodstock neighborhood. The business has been handed down from child to child, starting with Edwin, ever since. Today, Otto’s is run with the presence of three generations of Eichentopfs.