Otis B. Wight was born on May 28, 1877, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1898 and graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1902. He was commissioned as a Captain in the armed forces on December 2, 1917. His first assignment in 1918 was to mobilize enlisted men to staff the Base Hospital 46. Base Hospital 46 was the University of Oregon Medical School-organized contingent of volunteer medical personnel. He went first to Camp Lewis, Washington, where he was promoted to Major. He accepted his commission as Chief of Medical Service at the Base Hospital. In January of that same year, he was appointed Adjutant and Registrar. After the war, he served as a Portland physician and surgeon and civic leader for more than 40 years, specializing in radium treatment of cancer. In 1955, at the age of 77, Dr. Wight died from a stroke.
From the description of Otis B. Wight Base Hospital 46 glass plate negative collection, 1918-1919. [1918-1919]. (Oregon Health & Science University Library). WorldCat record id: 123180836
