Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Hyer, Otis H. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Hyer, Otis H., Little Falls, is a native of Rensselaer, N. Y. He has been in 
the woolen manufacturing line for thirteen years and is an expert. He was five 
years in Pittsfield, Mass., and after three years' absence returned to the 
same firm. He was two years in Woonsocket and four years in Providence, R. I., 
then with the Rhode Island Knitting Company in Berwick three years. After a 
short stay in Fonda, N. Y., he returned to Little Falls and is one of the 
superintendents of MacKinnon's Mill. Mr. Hyer served his country in the war of 
the Rebellion in Company K, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment and 
participated in the battles of Petersburg, Lynchburg and Piedmont, in the last 
of which he was wounded and taken prisoner and passed eleven months in 
Andersonville prison. He was under fifteen years old when he enlisted. He is a 
Republican.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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