Harrison Gray Otis (publisher)

Harrison Gray Otis was the president and general manager of the TimesMirror Company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times.

Otis was born near Marietta, Ohio, on February 10, 1837, the son of Stephen and Sara Otis. His father was from Vermont and his mother, a native of Nova Scotia, Canada, came to Ohio from Boston, Massachusetts, with her family. The young Otis received schooling until he was fourteen, when he became a printers apprentice.

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