The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-30
Of Los
ANGELES TIMES
TAKEN BY DEATH
General Otis, Enemy Of Union
Labor, Is Gone,

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 10
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, president and
general manager of the Los Angeles
Times, died today at the home here OF
his SON in law, Harry Chandler.
The death Of General Otis occurred
while he was at breakfast. Heart dis
ease wa, said to have been the cause
Although he had suffered occasional
attacks of illness recently General
Otis had been at his desk in the Times
office nearly every day within the last
few weeks. About a year ago he sui
fered an attack OF pneumonia but re-
covered after a long illness.
Long Line Of Soldiers.
General Otis, himself a veteran OF
two wars, came OF a long line OF mill
tary and craftsmanship ancestry, His
grandfather was a soldier OF note in
the Revolutionary wal and the OTIS
stock produced James Otis, Revolu-
tionary patriot and orator, and the first
Harrison Gray Otis, once noted as a
senator from Massachusetts General
Otis was 80 years old, his birth having
occurred on Washington county, Ohio,
farm, Feb. 10. 1897.
Over five years OF General Otis lie
was spent as a volunteer soldier OF the
United States. In 1851, at the age of
"a, he enlisted in the 18th Ohio Volun.
tcers; wa, promoted through all grades
10 a captain in 1904. In that year a
consolidation OF regiments placed him
in the 23rd Ohio veteran volunteers,
Continued From Page one.)
his colonel and captain being respec-
lively, Rutherford b. Hays and Will
liam Mckinley. Altogether, Otis saw
forty-nine months OF actual service IN
the Civil war, was twice wounded and
received seven promotions, including
two brevets, retiring with the title OF
major and observation-disclosures by brevet.
Service In 1898.
With the outbreak OF the Spanish
American war, in 1893, Major Otis, at
the age Of Of, volunteered his services
to President Mckinley and wa, made
a brigadier general Of volunteers, lie
was assigned to duty, first at Camp
MERIT (CaD and then to the Philip
pines, where; at different times, he
commanded various divisions Of tn.
Eighth Army corps in the campaign
assault on Caloocan and participated in
the capture Of the Filipino capital. He
resigned his command in April, 1899,
returning to the United States. Upon
his discharge, he was brevetted major
general for "meritorious conduct in &C
ton"
Following the civil war, OH. re
turned to the trade Of printer, for which
he had abandoned school at an earl,
age, acquiring, finally in 1892, a four,l
interest in the Los Angelo, Times
Previously he had served for four year
as foreman of the government printing
office at Washington,
Break With Labor.
Quite early in his career as edito'
and publisher Of the Times, for HI
speedily secured full control, Otis CAM
into conflict with organized labor anc
thereafter until the day OF his death h
waged an unrelenting warfare for wha
he termed industrial freedom. On DC
tober 10, 1910 his building and print
ing plant was dynamited and twenty o
his workmen killed. The arrests ant
trial, which followed were matters o
nationwide interest.
General Otis acquired a large for
tune, his interests aside from publish
ing being extensive, In politics, hi
paper ever reflected the attitude OF it
editor-aggressive, Incorporating re
publican, Otis connection with tina
party dating back to 1860, when he wa
sent from Kentucky as a delegate I
the convention at Chicago which nom
mated Lincoln for the presidency.
Aside from those mentioned, Genera
Otis held numerous governmental pc
sltions at different periods OF his III,
I He was prominent in the Grand Arm
of the Republic and numerous othc
patriotic orders and member OF III
American Academy of Sciences,
The bride OF General OTIS youn
manhood, Miss Eliza Wetherby, wa
his constant associate in Journalism an
literature until her death in 1904 {
the five children born to them, tw
daughters survive,