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| Birth: | 26 Sep 1798 in Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Death: | 12 Mar 1853 in Prairieville, Barry, MI |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Ephraim Otis b. 23 Dec 1773 |
| Mother: | Mary Cornwell b. 11 Mar 1771 |
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They lived at Little York until Isaac came west and settle
d on a farm at Marengo, near Marshall, Calhoun County, Mich., in 1833. He was followed by his wife and children the next spring, at a time when there was no railroad west of Detroit, and the journey was made in an immigrant wagon in the usual pioneer fashion. In 1836 he moved with his family to Prairieville, a southern township in Barry Co., Mich., and there opened up a large farm where he spent the rest of his life. It was his desire and expectation that this farm should be divided up into smaller allotments, on which his children would make their homes about them, but they never did. He was a prominent man in the community and was one of the first associate judges of that county, as appears from the following entry found in the Court official records at Hastings, the county seat, obtained in 1906 through the courtesy of Hon. Chas. M. Mack, Judge of Probate of that county, who writes as follows:
"The first term of the Circuit Court for the County of Barr y was held in May 1840, in the school house in the village of Hastings. The following is a copy of the caption of the Court Journal at its first session. 'At a session of the Circuit Court held at the Court House in the Village of Hastings in and for the County of Barry on the 6th day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred Forty; present: Epaphroditus Ransom, Circuit Judge, and Isaac Otis and Nathan Barlow, Associate Judges.'
Judge Ransom was afterwards governor of the state, and wa s very active in promoting the interests of the Michigan State University where five of the Otis family were educated. He and Isaac Otis were lifelong friends and staunch democrats. It must not be inferred that Isaac Otis was a lawyer, although after his death I often heard the neighbors remark that he knew more than half the lawyers, and was often consulted by them as to their legal rights. At that time in Michigan, as in other states, it was the custom for the presiding judge to have associated with him two practical business men, not lawyers, elected by the people, called side or farmer judges, who sat with him in the trial and decisions of cases, and whom he was supposed to consult in making his rulings and decisions, but tradition says that he very rarely, if ever, did. Isaac Otis, although actively prosecuting his farm occupation, generally held in connection therewith some official position either as school-teacher, postmaster, justice of the peace, or town supervisor. The old stage line from Kalamazoo to Hastings passed his house, then the wayside post-office, and the arrival of the stage coach was announced by large blasts of the stage horn. He died at his home in Barry Co., 1853, as the result of a falling tree while he was directing his farm operations".
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