| OTIS (Soundex
O320)
— See also
ATHAS,
HASSIOTIS,
LOUZIOTIS,
MALIOTIS,
OATES,
OATIS,
ODIS,
ORTIS,
OTTIS,
OTTS,
POTISH,
SPELIOTIS,
SPILIOTIS,
TISO,
YEOTIS.
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See also
Charles
Moore Bancroft —
Mark
Wilson Buyck Jr. —
Horace
Wesley Greeley —
Charles
Kellogg —
Day
Otis Kellogg —
Dwight
Kellogg —
Walter
Cecil Owen —
Robert
Helyer Thayer —
William
Garner Waddel —
Lemuel
Williams —
Lemuel
Williams |
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Otis, Albert T. —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1952.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Anna —
Communist. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Asa H. (1797-1855) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Fort Ann, Washington
County, N.Y., March
24, 1797.
Farmer;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 1st District, 1835;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County, 1850.
Died in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., August
26, 1855 (age 58 years, 155
days).
Interment at Woodmere
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Matson Otis and Deborah (Wetheral) Otis; married to Mary Goodell;
second cousin once removed of Asahel Otis
and Norton Prentiss Otis; second cousin
twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; second
cousin thrice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; third cousin of Oran Gray
Otis, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, David Perry Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); third cousin
once removed of Harrison Gray Otis
(1765-1848) and Lauren Ford Otis; third
cousin twice removed of John
Taintor, Roger
Taintor, Solomon
Taintor, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr., Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864) and Ralph
Chester Otis; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah
Cowles and Jonathan
Brace; fourth cousin of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr., Ephraim
Safford, John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris F. Otis, James Otis
(1826-1875) and Abraham
Lansing; fourth cousin once removed of James
Parker, Joseph
Churchill Strong, Calvin
Frisbie, Ebenezer
Strong, DeGrasse
Maltby, Henry
Taintor, Benjamin
Fessenden, John
Adams Taintor, Edmund
Holcomb, James
Safford, John
Arnold Rockwell, Ralph
Smith Taintor, Henry
G. Taintor, Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden, Charles Augustus
Otis, Sr., James Otis (1836-1898), Edwin
Carpenter Pinney, Daniel
Frederick Webster, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925) and Theron
Ephron Catlin. |
| | | Political family: Otis
family of Connecticut (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Otis, Asahel (1768-1837) —
of Montville, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Montville, New London
County, Conn., May 1,
1768.
Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Montville, 1822.
Died in Bethany, Genesee
County, N.Y., January
12, 1837 (age 68 years, 256
days).
Interment at Chester Burying Ground, Montville, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Otis and Amy (Gardner) Otis; married, January
15, 1792, to Mary Chester; first cousin once removed of Day
Otis Kellogg and Dwight
Kellogg; second cousin once removed of Samuel Allyne Otis and Asa
H. Otis; third cousin of Harrison Gray
Otis; third cousin once removed of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr. and Abraham
Lansing; third cousin twice removed of John
Adams, Benjamin
Fessenden, Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden, Charles Augustus
Otis, Sr. and James Otis; third cousin
thrice removed of William
Barret Ridgely and Austin
Eugene Lathrop; fourth cousin of Stephen
Daniel Tilden, Moses
Younglove Tilden and Samuel
Jones Tilden; fourth cousin once removed of John
Quincy Adams, Daniel
Rose Tilden, Calvin
Tilden Hulburd, Andrew
Gould Chatfield and George
Bailey Loring. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Otis, Charles Augustus, Sr.
(1827-1905) —
also known as Charles A. Otis —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Bloomfield, Muskingum
County, Ohio, January
30, 1827.
Democrat. Mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1873-74.
Founder, Otis Iron and
Steel Co.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, June 28,
1905 (age 78 years, 149
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Otis, Charles Eugene
(1846-1917) —
also known as Charles E. Otis —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born, in a log
cabin, Prairieville, Barry
County, Mich., May 11,
1846.
Democrat. District judge in Minnesota 2nd District, 1889-1902;
candidate for justice of
Minnesota state supreme court, 1904.
Died November
26, 1917 (age 71 years, 199
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Darlene McCulligh —
of Michigan.
Democrat. Candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives 23rd District, 1976.
Female.
Still living as of 1976.
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Otis, David Perry
(1809-1890) —
also known as David P. Otis —
of Salem, New London
County, Conn.; Norwich, New London
County, Conn.; Niantic, East Lyme, New London
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., February
28, 1809.
Merchant;
piano
manufacturing business; member of Connecticut
state senate 9th District, 1860.
Died December
30, 1890 (age 81 years, 305
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Duval H. —
of Rutherford, Bergen
County, N.J.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1940.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Edna M. —
of East Tawas, Iosco
County, Mich.
Republican. Member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1947.
Female.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Frank —
of Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif.
Mayor
of Alameda, Calif., 1919-25.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, George Lorenzo
(1829-1882) —
also known as George L. Otis —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y., October
7, 1829.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 2, 1857-58; member of Minnesota
state senate 21st District, 1866; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1867-68; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1869.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., March
29, 1882 (age 52 years, 173
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Otis, Harold —
Socialist. Candidate for Michigan
state senate 9th District, 1934.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Harris F.
(1816-1861) —
of Danby, Rutland
County, Vt.; Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt.; Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Vermont, June 3,
1816.
Lawyer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1849; mayor of
Topeka, Kan., 1860-61.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., 1861
(age about
45 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Harris F. —
of Danby, Rutland
County, Vt.
Member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Danby, 1888.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Harrison Gray
(1765-1848) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1765.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1796, 1803-05; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1803-05; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1796; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1797-1801; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1805; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts,
1814; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1817-22; Federalist candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1823; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1829-32.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
28, 1848 (age 83 years, 20
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Allyne Otis and Elizabeth (Gray)
Otis; married, May 31,
1790, to Sally Foster; grandfather of James
Otis (1836-1898); second great-grandfather of Robert
Helyer Thayer; second cousin once removed of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; second cousin thrice removed of Albert
Clinton Griswold; third cousin of Asahel
Otis; third cousin once removed of Oran Gray
Otis, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Asa H. Otis, John Otis, William Shaw
Chandler Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris F. Otis, James Otis
(1826-1875) and Harrison Gray Otis
(1837-1917); third cousin twice removed of Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John
Grant Otis, Norton Prentiss Otis, Lauren Ford Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; fourth cousin of Chillus
Doty; fourth cousin once removed of James
Duane Doty, George
Bailey Loring and Abraham
Lansing. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Otis
family of Connecticut; Lansing
family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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of Harrison,
Maine, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: Harrison
Gray Otis Blake
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Otis, Harrison Gray
(1837-1917) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Washington
County, Ohio, February
10, 1837.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky,
1860;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1892;
general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Died, from a rupture of the
heart, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 30,
1917 (age 80 years, 170
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Otis, Henry Dalton —
of Wayne
County, Mich.
Democrat. Candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1950.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Hugh —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Independent candidate for mayor
of Hackensack, N.J., 1930.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, James (1826-1875) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
11, 1826.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; importer
and exporter; candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1872
(delegation chair); mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Unitarian.
Died, of diphtheria,
in San
Francisco, Calif., October
30, 1875 (age 49 years, 80
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Otis, James (1836-1898) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
12, 1836.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1878; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1884-85.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from congestion of
the lungs, in Bellport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 22,
1898 (age 61 years, 283
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, James E. —
of Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Connecticut.
Republican. U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1891.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Joe —
of Mishawaka, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana,
1944.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, John (1801-1857) —
of Hallowell, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Maine, 1801.
Lawyer;
member of Maine state legislature, 1840; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1849-51.
Died August
17, 1857 (age about 56
years).
Interment at Hallowell
Cemetery, Hallowell, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver Otis and Elizabeth (Stanchfield) Otis; married 1831 to
Harriet Frances Vaughn; married, August
21, 1848, to Ellen Grant; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin of William Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris F. Otis and James
Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison
Gray Otis (1765-1848), Charles Augustus
Otis, Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John Grant Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; fourth cousin of Oran Gray Otis, Asa H.
Otis, David Perry Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Otis
family of Connecticut; Lansing
family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Otis, John —
Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, John C. —
of Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives from Hamilton County; elected 1897.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, John E. —
of West New York, Hudson
County, N.J.
Mayor
of West New York, N.J., 1898-1902.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, John E., Jr. —
of West New York, Hudson
County, N.J.
Mayor
of West New York, N.J., 1949-54.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, John F. —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Mayor of
Oswego, N.Y., 1932-33; defeated, 1937; chair of
Oswego County Democratic Party, 1941-42; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1944,
1948
(alternate).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, John Grant
(1838-1916) —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Danby, Rutland
County, Vt., 1838.
U.S.
Representative from Kansas 4th District, 1891-93.
Died in 1916
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Otis, John H. —
Member of New York
state senate 8th District, 1852-53.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, L. P. —
of Illinois.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1868.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Lauren Ford
(1842-1917) —
also known as Lauren F. Otis —
of Allegan
County, Mich.
Born near Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., September
10, 1842.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; fruit
grower;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Allegan County 1st District,
1895-98.
Died, of apoplexy,
November
19, 1917 (age 75 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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See Merrill E. Otis |
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Otis, Merrill E.
(1884-1944) —
also known as M. E. Otis —
Born in Nodaway
County, Mo., July 7,
1884.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1914; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, 1925-44;
died in office 1944.
Died December
23, 1944 (age 60 years, 169
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Michael J. —
of Fulton, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1980.
Still living as of 1980.
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Otis, Nathaniel —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Postmaster at Newport,
R.I., 1775-76.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Norton Prentiss
(1840-1905) —
also known as Norton P. Otis —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Halifax, Windham
County, Vt., March
18, 1840.
Republican. Mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1880-82; defeated, 1886; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 1st District, 1884; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1903-05; defeated,
1900; died in office 1905.
Died in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
20, 1905 (age 64 years, 339
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Hudson Terrace, N.Y.
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Otis, Oliver —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Democrat. Candidate for mayor
of Rockland, Maine, 1905.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Oran Gray
(1795-1836) —
of Ballston Spa, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born December
5, 1795.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Saratoga County, 1831-32.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., June 28,
1836 (age 40 years, 206
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Ralph Chester (b.
1870) —
also known as Ralph C. Otis —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 8,
1870.
Republican. Banker;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1916.
Interment at Oak
Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Otis, Ralph E. —
of Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1920; candidate for mayor
of Pittsfield, Mass., 1939.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Samuel Allyne
(1740-1814) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., November
24, 1740.
Merchant;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1776-85; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1784-85; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1787-88; Secretary of
the United States Senate, 1789-1814.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
22, 1814 (age 73 years, 149
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Otis (1702-1778) and Mary (Allyne) Otis; married, December
31, 1764, to Elizabeth Gray; married, March
28, 1782, to Mary (Smith) Gray; father of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848);
great-grandfather of James Otis (1836-1898);
third great-grandfather of Robert
Helyer Thayer; first cousin twice removed of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; first cousin four times removed of Albert
Clinton Griswold; second cousin once removed of Asahel Otis; second cousin twice removed of Oran Gray Otis, Day
Otis Kellogg, Asa H. Otis, Dwight
Kellogg, John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris
F. Otis, James Otis (1826-1875) and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); second cousin
thrice removed of Charles Augustus Otis,
Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John Grant Otis, Norton
Prentiss Otis, Lauren Ford Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; second cousin four times
removed of Ralph Chester Otis; third cousin
once removed of Chillus
Doty; third cousin twice removed of James
Duane Doty, George
Bailey Loring and Abraham
Lansing; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Doty. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Otis
family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Otis, Samuel D. —
of Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Populist candidate for mayor
of Meriden, Conn., 1892.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Samuel G. —
of Hallowell, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Democrat. Mayor
of Hallowell, Maine, 1914-15.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Sara E. —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Republican. Delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Concord 4th
Ward, 1948; elected New
Hampshire state senate 15th District 1948.
Female.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Steve —
of Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Mayor of
Rye, N.Y., 1998-2010.
Still living as of 2010.
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Otis, Thomas —
of Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1920,
1924.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, Waldemier —
of Ohio.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1876.
Burial location unknown.
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Otis, William Shaw Chandler
(1807-c.1887) —
also known as William S. C. Otis —
of Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Massachusetts, August
24, 1807.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Summit County,
1850-51.
Died about 1887 (age about 80
years).
Burial location unknown.
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