Harrison Gray Otis

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...