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| Birth: | 2 Aug 1835 in Marengo, Calhoun, MI |
| Death: | 6 Sep 1913 in Chicago, Cook, IL |
| 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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He died at his residence, 1213 Astor Street, Chicago, IL.
He spent his boyhood on the old farm in Barry County, Mich. , of which, on his father's death in 1853, he had the entire management for two years. At the end of that time he left the farm, prepared for college at Lodi Plains, Mich., and entered the University of Michigan in 1855. After a partial course he left college and began the study of law in the office of Joseph Miller, Esq., in Kalamazoo, Mich., a portion of the time teaching the High School during the day, and keeping up with the legal studies at night. He took a degree at the Poughkeepsie Law School in 1857, and in the fall of that year joined his brother, George L., in St. Paul, Minn., and was admitted to the Bar in that state in January 1858. He then formed a partnership with his brother under the firm name of Geo. L. and E.A. Otis, for the practice of law, which continued until the breaking out of the Civil war.
He assisted in the organization of the Second Minnesota Vol unteers and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in that regiment on the 12th of August; 1861, and shortly afterwards with his regiment was ordered to Kentucky and formed part of the Army of the Cumberland. Shortly after reaching Kentucky he was invited to join the staff of General R. W. Johnson as aide-de-camp, with whom he served until after the great battle of Shiloh on the 6th and 7th of April 1862, in which he took part with the army under General Buell, and where he received honorable mention.
He was then offered and accepted the position of Assistan t Adjutant General, with the rank of Captain, on the staff of General H. P. Van Cleve, who commanded a brigade and later a division in the Army of the Cumberland. He was present at the Battle of Perryville in October 1862, though not actively engaged. In the Murfreesboro campaign he served as Adjutant General, and Chief of Staff of the division of General Van Cleve, and took part with his command in that battle where he was again mentioned for gallant and efficient service. He served with his division in the Chickamauga campaign in 1863, and was in that terrible battle from the beginning to the end, again receiving the approval of his superior officers; he was slightly wounded, but remained on the field until the action was over. The following year he was stationed at Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he acted as Chief of Staff for Major-General Rosseau in the defense of that place during the Nashville campaign in 1864. After the destruction of the Confederate Army under General Hood at Nashville by General Thomas, the war having practically ended, he resigned from the army and began the practice of law at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained for the next three years. During this period he was engaged in a large number of important cases, and brought into very close relations with Governor Brownlow of Tennessee, and also with Major-General George H. Thomas, whose close personal friendship he enjoyed until the death of General Thomas in 1870.
In 1869 he received the appointment of Chancellor at Nashvi lle, one of the highest judicial positions in the State, which he continued to hold for a period of about one year. At the end of his term of office he declined a re-election, retired from the bench and moved to Chicago to engage in the practice of his profession, and until his death continued to reside in that city. During this period he had a wide and varied experience at the Bar in Illinois, and was engaged in many important cases. He was President of the Chicago Literary Club, Commander of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and a member of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts; he read many papers before these organizations upon military and historical subjects. He was also a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and other societies and organizations, in all of which he took an active part, but declined to accept any public office.
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