The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-31
HARRISON GRAY OTIS
DIES IN Los ANGELES
President and General Manager of Los
Angeles Times Succumbs at
Home of Son -in-Law.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 3l-Gen. Har'
rison Gray Otis, president and general
manager of the Los Angeles Times
died yesterday at the home of his son
in law, Harry Chandler.
General Otis, himself a veteran of
two wars, come of a long line of mill
tary and craftsmanship ancestry. His
grandfather was soldier of note in
the Revolutionary war and the Otis
stock produced James Otis, Revolu-
tionary orator and patriot, and the
Harrison Gray Otis, once noted as a
senator from Massachusetts.
General Otis was born on Washing
ton county, Ohio farm, Feb. 10, 1887.
Over FIVE years of General Otis life was
spent as volunteer soldier of the Unit
ed States.
In 1851, at the age of "a, he enlisted
in the 18th Ohio volunteers; was promot-
ed through all grades to a captain in
1854
In that year consolidation of regi-
ments placed him in the 23d Ohio Vet
eran volunteers, his colonel and captain
being respectively, Rutherford B. Hayes
and William Mckinley.
Altogether Otis saw 40 months of ae-
tual service In the Civil war, was twice
wounded and received seven promotions,
including two brevets, retiring with the
title of major and lieutenant colonel, by
brevet.
With the outbreak of the Spanish
American war, in 1898, Major Otis at the
age of 81 years, volunteered his services
to President Mckinley and was made a
gadier-general of volunteers. He was
assigned to duty, first at Camp Merritt,
California, and then to the Philippines,
where, at different times, he command
ed various divisions of the Eighth army
corps in the campaign for pacification of
the native revolt. He led a brigade in |
participated in the capture of the Fill
Pine capital He resigned his command |
in April, 1899, returning to the United |
States. Upon discharge, he was brevet-
ted major general for "meritorious con-
duct in action"
Following the Civil war, Otis returned
to the trade of printer, for which he had
abandoned school at an early age, &C
quiring, finally in 1882, fourth inter
est in the Los Angeles Times. Previous
Iy he had served for four years as fore
man of the government printing Office at
Washington.
Quite early in his career as editor and
publisher of the Times, for he speedily
secured full control, Otis came into con
1ict with organized labor and thereaft-
,r until the day of his death he waged
IN unreenting warfare for what he
.ermed Industrial freedom. On Oct. 10,
1910, his building and printing plant
we're dynamited and 20 workmen killed
General Otis acquired large fortune,
lis interests aside from publisher being ,
extensive. In politics, his paper ever re-
lected the attitude of its editor--aggres-
lively, uncompromisingly, Republican,
)tis' connection with that party dating
Jack to 1860, when he was sent from ,
kentucky as a delegate to the convention |
It Chicago, which nominated Lincoln for |
he presidency.
Aside from those mentioned, General I
tits held numerous governmental posi- |
ions at different periods of his life He
vas prominent in the Grand Army of the
republic and numerous other patriotic
riders and member of the American 7
academy of Science.
The bride of General Otis young man
God, Miss Eliza Wetherby, was his con.
tant associate in journalism and litera- a
ure until her death in 1904. OF five S
hildren born to them, two daughters
urvive. C