Eliza Ann Wetherby Otis (1833-1904) was a Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 philanthropist and a writer for the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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. As a member of the staff at the Times working at such departments as "Woman and Home" and "Our Boys and Girls."

Biography

She was born as Eliza Ann Wetherby in 1833 to a wealthy woolen manufacturer and minister who had opened the Wetherby Academy and named it for himself. She married Harrison Gray Otis. They had a daughter, Marian Otis

Marian Otis Chandler

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, and she married Harry Chandler

Harry Chandler

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