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Otis, John – Outlaw, David

Otis, John

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1801 in Maine.

He served five years in the Maine legislature; was a commissioner for settling the northeastern boundary; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1849 to 1851. He died Oct. 17, 1856.

Otis, John Grant

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 1838, in Danby, Vt. For over twenty years he has been engaged in the dairy business near Topeka, Kas. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a people's party candidate.

Otis, Norton Prentiss

manufacturer, state legislator, was born March 18, 1840, in Halifax, Vt. He is president of Otis Brothers and Company. Some of the largest elevators in the world are the product of these works, including the one in the Washington monument, and the famous elevator in the Eiffel tower in Paris. He was elected mayor of Yonkers in 1880 and state assemblyman in 1883.

Otis, Samuel Allyne

state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1740, in Barnstable, Mass. In 1776 he was a representative in the assembly; and subsequently a member of the convention which framed the constitution of Massachusetts. From 1787 to 1788 he was a delegate to the continental congress, and upon the adoption of the constitution was appointed secretary of the senate, holding that office for more than thirty years. He died April 22, 1814, in Washington.

Ott, Isaac

physician, author, was born Nov. 30, 1847, in Northampton county, Pa. He is a physician who has published Cocaine, Veratria, and Gelseminum; Action of Medicines; and Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System.

Ottendorfer, Anna

philanthropist, was born Feb. 13, 1815, in Moravia.

In 1875 she established in Astoria, L. I., the Isabella Home for Aged Women, named in memory of a deceased daughter, expending $150,000 on the building and endowment. She contributed $40,000 to an educational fund, built the women's pavilion of the German hospital, New York city, at a cost of $75,000, and gave $100,000 for a German dispensary. She died April 1, 1884, in New York city.

Ottendorfer, Oswald

journalist, was born Dec. 26, 1826, in Moravia. In 1872-74 he was an alderman, and in 1874 a candidate for mayor of New York city.

He gave $300,000 to build and endow an educational institution in his native town in Austria, founded on Long Island a home for aged and indigent men, and established the Ottendorfer free library in Second avenue, New York city, at an original cost of $50,000, which has been augmented by annual gifts.

Otts, John Martin Philip

clergyman, author, was born June 7, 1838, in Union, S. C. He is a presbyterian minister of Talladega, Ala.; and the author of Nicodemus with Jesus; Light and Life for a Dead World; The Southern Pen and Pulpit; Inter-denominational Literature; The Gospel of Honesty; Laconisms; The Fifth Gospel; Unsettled Questions; and At Mother's Knee.

Oury, Granville H

legislator, congressman, was born March 12, 1825, in Abington, Va. In 1849 he went to California and engaged in mining; and in 1856 settled in Arizona. He was elected a representative in the territorial legislature in 1866, 1873 and 1875, serving as speaker the first two terms. He was elected a delegate from Arizona to the forty-seventh congress as a democrat.

Outlaw, David

lawyer, congressman, was born in Bertie county, N. C. He served three years in the house of commons; was elected solicitor of Edenton district in 1836; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1847 to 1853.