Name Eliza Otis | Role Writer Children Marian Otis Chandler | |
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Full Name Eliza Ann Wetherby Spouse(s) Harrison Gray Otis (m. 1859-1904, her death) Relatives Harry Chandler (son-in-law)
Mike Chandler (great-great grandson)
Otis Chandler (great-grandson)
Norman Chandler (grandson)
Helen Chandler (grandson)
Dorothy Buffum Chandler (granddaughter-in-law)
Camilla Chandler (great-granddaughter)
Stephen Otis (father-in-law)
Sara Otis (mother-in-law) Died November 12, 1904, Westlake, Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
Occupation philanthropist, writer | ||
Eliza Ann Wetherby Otis (1833 – 1904) was a Los Angeles philanthropist and a writer for the Los Angeles Times. As a member of the staff at the Times, she worked at such departments as "Woman and Home" and "Our Boys and Girls."
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Biography
She was born as Eliza Ann Wetherby in 1833 to Charles Thomas Wetherby (1807-1871), a wealthy woolen manufacturer and minister who had opened the Wetherby Academy and named it for himself and Nancy Hyde Wetherby (1809-1849). She married Harrison Gray Otis. They had five children. One daughter, Emma Marian married Harry Chandler and another, Ida Mabel (1871-1955) married Franklin Booth (1861-1956), grandfather of Franklin Otis Booth, Jr..
Legacy
The Eliza A. Otis Memorial Chimes in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
References
Eliza Ann Otis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA