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Howard (OLIVER OTIS an American)

OLIVER OTIS, an American military officer; born in Leeds, Me., HOWE Nov. 8, 1830; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and at the United States Military Academy in 1854; served was instructor in mathematics at West Point, 1857-1861; entered the Civil War as colonel of the 3d Maine Regiment; commanded a bri- , July 21, 1861; became major-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862; commander of the Department of Tennessee in 1864; commissioner of Bureau, 1865-1874; peace commissioner to the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, 1872; brigadier-general in 1864; major-general , U. S. A., 1886; and was retired Nov. 8, 1894. He lectured and wrote: " tured and wrote: "Nez Perces Joseph"; Taylor"; "Isabella of Castile"; "Fighting for Humanity"; etc.

He was personal military adviser of President McKinley in the American- Spanish War (1898).

He died in 1909. institution in Birmingham, Ala.; founded