. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . CHARLES I. HVDSOX IHOrtOU IPVCUtiSS ©tiS, the famous manufacturer of elevators, was born in Halifax, Vermont,about fifty-seven years ago. He comes from excel-lent New England stock, tracing his descent throughmany generations to John Otis, who left his home .)0 .i//;.\ ()/•? x/:ii )V)AA -.]/j\//a/j:i\ s/:c//ox in Hingham, ?-ngland, for Massachusetts, a fnwyears after the Pilgrim set
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . CHARLES I. HVDSOX IHOrtOU IPVCUtiSS ©tiS, the famous manufacturer of elevators, was born in Halifax, Vermont,about fifty-seven years ago. He comes from excel-lent New England stock, tracing his descent throughmany generations to John Otis, who left his home .)0 .i//;.\ ()/•? x/:ii )V)AA -.]/j\//a/j:i\ s/:c//ox in Hingham, ?-ngland, for Massachusetts, a fnwyears after the Pilgrim settlement. After attending school in various places — Albany,N. Y., Hudson, N. J., and Yonkers, N. Y.—becauseof fret|uent changes of residence on the jjart of hisfamily. Mr. Otis began at tlie age of eighteen the. .\7)A7V).\- work to which his whole life has been devoted. En-tering the small elevator factory which had been es-tablished by his father in 1855, he learned there allthat was then known about the construction of ele-vators. His father died in 1801, and Norton, withhis brother Charles, took charge of the combined capital was hardly $2000, theirplant was small and inconvenient, and the outbreakof the Civil War was still another adverse succeeded, however, in devising and patentingcertain appliances promoting the safety of passengerelevators; and with this advantage over competitorstheir business gradually gained momentum. Begin-ning with annual sales of only S15,000, their o]jera-tions continually expanded until their name came to suggest elevators as soon as it was mentioned any-where. The business was incorporated soon after itsorganization, Norton P. Otis becoming treasurerof the neu concern; and since liHH((, when CharlesR. ()tis ret
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