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| 1. | Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor. |
| 2. | Harrison Gray, 1837–1917, U.S. army officer and newspaper publisher. |
| 3. | James, 1725–83, American lawyer and public official who is supposed to have first used the phrase “Taxation without representation” (brother of Mercy Otis Warren). |
| 4. | a male given name. |
| O·tis (ō'tĭs) American inventor of the first passenger elevator (installed 1857). |
Elisha Graves Otis
American inventor of the safety elevator
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