Otto G. Tague
Otto G. Tague, who is extensively engaged in the oil industry in Ohio and Indiana oil fields, is also well-known through this section as a newspaper man and since 1902 he has been proprietor and editor of the Oil News, a monthly journal which he founded and which is entirely devoted to the oil industry. Mr. Tague was born in 1877 in Switzerland County, Indiana, and is a son of James Tague, who superintends his son's large oil properties.
Mr. Tague was educated in the public schools of Ohio and when his education was complete he went out on the road for the publishing firm of Rand, McNally & Company of Chicago, and was connected with their advertising department for four years.
In 1900 Mr. Tague left off traveling in order to accept the editorship of the Van Wert Times, at Van Wert, Ohio, but in less than a year he came to Lima where the field was larger and was connected with the Republican Gazette until 1902 when he established the Oil News. This journal filled a long-felt want and its circulation extends all over the world, subscribers being found in South America and in South Africa.
Mr. Tague has not been satisfied with literary laurels but has been interested in a very practical way in large oil interests for some years. He is president of several oil companies in the Ohio and Indiana fields and he is also interested in Dr. S. A. Baxter's copper mines in South Dakota.
In 1902 Mr. Tague was married to Laura M. Watts, who is a daughter of A. H. Watts, superintendent of the motive power department of the Cincinnati & Northern Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Tague are the parents of one daughter, Beatrice.
Fraternally Mr. Tague has membership with the Masons and the Elks. His offices are in the Opera House Block, Lima. He is one of the city's busy and successful men.