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Samuel Allyne Otis (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; brother of Joseph
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 of Benjamin
Lincoln; 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: Otis
#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts; Otis
#2 family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Harrison Gray Otis (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; nephew of Joseph
Otis; 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 Benjamin
Lincoln, 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: Otis
#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts; Otis
#2 family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town
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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Oran Gray Otis (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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Asa H. Otis (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 Joseph
Otis and 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 Benjamin
Lincoln, John
Taintor, Roger
Taintor, Solomon
Taintor, William
Augustus Bird, 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 families: Otis
#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts; Otis
#2 family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Epaphroditus Ransom (1798-1859) —
of Vermont; Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in Shelburne Falls, Shelburne, Franklin
County, Mass., March
24, 1798.
Lawyer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1830; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1836-48; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1843-48; Governor of
Michigan, 1848-50; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1850-51; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Kalamazoo County 2nd
District, 1853-54.
Died in Fort Scott, Bourbon
County, Kan., November
9, 1859 (age 61 years, 230
days).
Interment at Mountain
Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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John Otis (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: Otis
#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts; Otis
#2 family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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William Shaw Chandler Otis (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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David Perry Otis (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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Harris F. Otis (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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James Otis (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; Republican Presidential Elector for California, 1860;
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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George Lorenzo Otis (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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Thaddeus H. Walker (1831-1895) —
of Salem, Washington
County, N.Y.; Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt., September
12, 1831.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Washington County 1st District, 1858;
candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1872; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1880.
Died in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., November
14, 1895 (age 64 years, 63
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Salem, N.Y.
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Harrison Gray Otis (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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John Grant Otis (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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Edward Cahill (1843-1922) —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., August
3, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Ingham
County Prosecuting Attorney; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1890; law partner of Russell
C. Ostrander.
Died July 27,
1922 (age 78 years, 358
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Charles Eugene Otis (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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