Background
Otis, Spencer was born in February 1858 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Daniel C. and Clara (Otis) Otis.
Otis, Spencer was born in February 1858 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Daniel C. and Clara (Otis) Otis.
Educated Amherst College.
Engaged in engineering. Was connected with the United Presbyterian Railway at Omaha and Denver, later in railway supply business at Omaha, incorporating the Spencer Otis Company in 1896, of which has since been president Resident of Chicago since 1898.
Clubs: Union League, Hamilton, Ravenswood.
Married Julia I. Melchers, of Detroit, Michigan, 1902.