Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature, 
Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 
West Virigina, 1917

Source:
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917,
Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate, 
The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va.
pgs. 719 - 770

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

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OTTO, WILLIAM THOMAS.  (Republican.)  Ad-
dress: Wheeling, West Va. One of the representatives
from the county of Ohio. Born in that city August 28,
1850; educated in the public schools; from 1878 to 1913-
a period of thirty-five years-was Superintendent of the
North Wheeling Glass Works; has now retired; was a
member of the Board of Public Works of Wheeling;
served twenty years in the first branch of the city council
and two years in the second branch; was elected to the
House of Delegates in 1914; re-elected in 1916; com-
mittee assignments in 1917: Counties, Districts and
Municipal Corporations, Medicine and Sanitation, Arts,
Science and General Improvements.

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