Ancestry of
Willis Carrier

Inventor of Air Conditioning

(David) Harris Otis

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Willis Carrier — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 30 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Otis Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Harris   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Apr 1775 
  • Birth Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Aug 1847 
  • Death Location:
  • Danby, Rutland, Vermont 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Otis Cemetery, Danby, Rutland, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Rogers
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1795 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Danby, Rutland, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Lydia Otis (Ahnentafel No:15 )

  • Notes: 

  • Birth of Harris Otis also recorded in the Danby, Vermont, vital records about 67 years after the fact.

• Sources for (David) Harris Otis

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A084813.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 279, Birth record for David Harris Otis.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 151.
  • ⁴ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Birth record for daughter Lydia Otis.
  • ⁵ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Birth record of Dr. Harris Otis.
  • ⁶ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Death record for Harris Otis M.D..
  • ⁷ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 914-915.
  • ⁸ Fales, De Coursey, The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of New York, Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin and Son, Printers (1919), 201.
  • ⁹ Frost, Josephine C., The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island . . ., New York: The Lyons Genealogical Company (1914), 366.
  • ¹⁰ Nye, Robert Glen, Button Families of America, San Diego, California?: Unknown (1971), 286.
  • ¹¹ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 173, 286-287, 388.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 388.