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Harrison Gray Otis

American journalist
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February 10, 1837, near Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
Died:
July 30, 1917, Los Angeles, California (aged 80)
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Harrison Gray Otis (born February 10, 1837, near Marietta, Ohio, U.S.—died July 30, 1917, Los Angeles, California) was an American newspaper publisher who directed the Los Angeles Times from 1886 until after World War I. Otis was a descendant of the colonial political activist James Otis. He received little formal education but worked as a printer’s apprentice in his teens and studied briefly at a commercial college in Columbus, Ohio. After moving to Kentucky he became a member of the new Republican Party, and in 1860 he served as a delegate to its national convention, which nominated Abraham Lincoln. During ...(100 of 312 words)

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