15 Facts About Otis Norcross

Otis C Norcross served as the nineteenth Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, from January 7,1867 to January 6,1868 during the Reconstruction era of the United States.

The sentiment of Otis Norcross' spirit was reflectively shared upon his death:.

Otis Norcross brought to our service the sterling qualities which marked his whole character and career.

Otis Norcross was a man of great intelligence, of remarkable firmness, and of the highest integrity, never weary in well-doing, and one whose counsel and co-operative, in all the concerns of this Association and of the community in which he lived, were as highly valued as they were cheerfully and generously afforded.

Otis Norcross's legacy includes serving as a member of the Water Board that helped to promote the construction of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

Otis C Norcross married Lucy Ann [Lane], his first cousin, on 9 December 1835, at the Twelfth Congregational Church in Boston, strict disciples of Unitarianism.

Otis Norcross's wife was the daughter of George Lane and Sarah Merritt [Homer], married 27 July 1814.

Notable Boston Brahmins, the Otis Norcross family resided at No 249 Marlborough Street, Boston, adjacent to Boston Common.

Otis Norcross later died at the family home, No 9 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, and is interred with his family at Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge, MA.

The Otis Norcross family is a succession of prominent New Englanders in America deriving from All Hallows Bread Street, London, Middlesex, England, whom upon arrival in the colonies, first settled with fellow Puritans in Salem, Massachusetts, then resettling with the new community in Watertown, Massachusetts, whose progenitor Jeremiah Otis Norcross was a landowner within the town in 1642.

Otis Norcross, is the fourth cousin, third removed of Hon.

Adelaide Otis Norcross, married Nov 1844 John Warren White Bass,.

Mary Cunningham [Homer] Otis Norcross was the elder sister of Charles Savage Homer; father of American artist Winslow Homer.

Mary Cunningham [Homer] Otis Norcross was the third born of fourteen children to Eleazer and Mary [Bartlett] Homer.

Otis Norcross Stratton served as President of Massachusetts Board of Education, Vocational Education Society of Boston; and Director Vocational Education [Division], Field of Industrial Schools for Men and Boys, and Agent-in-Charge of Teacher Training in all fields, Massachusetts Department of Education.