Whitley first intended the town be named "Otis", after Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, and streets as Otis, Sherman, Letts (the Broadway store) and Ross (after his son, Ross Whitley) show the connections.
She attended Stanford University, where at a school dance she met Norman Chandler, eldest son of the family that had published the Los Angeles Times since 1883 and was a significant social and political force in the area.
But when Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, joined the body in 1896, the association underwent a transformation.
Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Third Mayor of Boston; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Massachusetts District Attorney; Son of Samuel Allyne Otis.
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Army General Harrison Gray Otis bought the paper in 1884 to form the Times-Mirror Company which eventually merged with the Tribune Company in 2000.
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Harrison, Maine, Incorporated March 8, 1805, it was named after principal landowner, Harrison Gray Otis of Boston, the heir of James Otis.
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It was named after Harrison Gray Otis, an influential lawyer, financier, and politician in revolutionary Massachusetts.
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Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814), Speaker of the Massachusetts General Court; Representative to the Second Continental Congress; First Secretary of the United States Senate; Son of James Otis, Sr. and father of Harrison Gray Otis.
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Otis began in 1918, when Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis bequeathed his MacArthur Park property to start the first public, independent professional school of art in Southern California.
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Harrison Gray Otis House, There are three houses named the Harrison Gray Otis House that were designed by Charles Bulfinch for politician Harrison Gray Otis.
George Harrison | Benjamin Harrison | Harrison Ford | Otis Redding | Fielding Gray | Gray Davis | William Henry Harrison | Gray's Inn | Macy Gray | Lou Harrison | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Harrison | Harrison Birtwistle | John Harrison | Asa Gray | Thomas Gray | Rex Harrison | Gray | Alasdair Gray | Harrison Gray Otis | Charles Gray | William M. Gray | Otis | John Edward Gray | Otis Elevator Company | Gray's Anatomy | William Harrison Rice | William Harrison Binnie | Tamyra Gray | Robert Gray |
Numerous tenants have occupied various parts of the house through the years, including Samuel Dexter, Christopher Gore, John Jeffries, Harrison Gray Otis, Anna Ticknor's Society to Encourage Studies at Home, and temporarily in 1824, Lafayette.