Biography of 	OTIS, Henry, Yarmouth, MA., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller November 1998

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The Otis Manufacturing company is the only concern in New Orleans or 
the South engaged in the importation of mahogany, and was established 
into a stock company by Henry Otis in 1886.  Mr. Otis was for many 
years connected with the timber trade in New Orleans, but prior to that 
time was interested in the manufacture of boxes of all descriptions, 
and the establishment with which he was connected did the most 
extensive and paying business ever done in the city.  It gave 
employment to 150 men, and was in operation night and day.  Henry Otis 
was born in Yarmouth, Mass., and died on August 8,1891, at which time 
he was fifty-two years of age.  When a boy of fourteen he left home and
went to sea, and followed this life until he attained his majority, 
visiting all the principal countries of the globe.  Upon abandoning a 
sea-faring life he opened a grocery store in Boston, and during the 
Civil w