Biography of George E Otis, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Capt. George E. Otis, of Mansfield, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Wisconsin
in 1849, and is a son of Joseph  and Maria E. (Smith) Otis. The father was born
in the “Green Mountain State” in 1809, and at an early day  removed to
Wisconsin, thence to Minnesota in 1855. Here he made his home until 1879, when
he moved to  Dakota Territory, and after residing there until 1888 came to
Sebastian County, Ark. They were the parents of  two children: George E. and
Ada (Mrs. Graves, of Minnesota). George Otis spent his early days in Minnesota,
and received his rudimentary education in the common schools, supplemented by
an attendance in the high  school at Chatfield, Minn. He studied civil
engineering in the field, and began working at that occupation as chainman, and
since his residence in Arkansas, has been “locating engineer” on the 'Frisco
Railway about six  years, the location of the Mansfield branch being a portion
of his work. Since taking up his abode in Mansfield  he has been engaged in the
wholesale flour business, and also in the fruit and cotton business. He is a
Mason,  and a stanch Republican in politics.