Early Life and Education
Born in Russia to a Russian mother and a British father, Otto Mears was orphaned when young. He was sent as a boy to the United States to live with relatives who had emigrated there, and sailed to San Francisco.
Mears served in the California Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
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