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| Birth: | 7 Oct 1829 in Little York, NY |
| Death: | 29 Mar 1883 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Isaac Otis b. 26 Sep 1798 in Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Mother: | Caroline Abigail Curtiss b. 20 Aug 1808 in New York |
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Individual:
He lived with his parents on the farm in Barry County, Mich
., until about twenty years old, then took an academic coarse in Oswego, N.Y., where he commenced the study of medicine. This soon proved distasteful to him, and he abandoned it for the law, and as clerk and student entered the office of Balch & DeYoe, prominent lawyers of Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1853. Two years later he went to St. Paul, Minn., where he opened a law office, and diligently followed the practice of his profession, which was large and lucrative, until his death. He was an able, upright and successful lawyer; refused an appointment to the Supreme Court tendered him by Governor [afterwards Senator,. Cushman K. Davis; was a member of the legislature; Mayor of St. Paul; Chairman of the Commission to revise the city charter, still substantially in force; and leading counsel in the railroad foreclosures upon the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad and branch lines, which gave rise to the Great Northern transcontinental system extending from St. Paul to the Pacific Coast, so long under the control of the great railroad magnate, James J. Hill. In 1869 he was Democratic candidate for Governor of Minnesota, and was undoubtedly elected, but election returns in the frontier counties were held back for over three weeks, and were so manipulated as to count him out. He considered it a narrow escape from a great calamity, and is said to have spent anxious days and sleepless nights fearing lest he had allowed himself to be thrust into public office, and would be compelled to abandon his chosen vocation. At the following election he positively refused to accept again the nomination tendered him by a visiting delegation.
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