Otway Curry (March 26, 1804 – February 15, 1855) was a journalist, poet and legislator in the U.S. State of Ohio.

At age 7, in 1811, his family moved to Pleasant Valley, Union County, Ohio.

[1][2] During the War of 1812, his education was interrupted when his father was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in the then capital of Chillicothe, and his older brother joined the army, leaving Otway at home with his mother.

[3] In 1838 he was editor of the short-lived Columbus monthly magazine Hesperian, and in 1839 began study of law at Marysville, Ohio.

Curry was an eager supporter of the 1840 Whig candidate for president, William Henry Harrison of Ohio.

'Twas built among the merry boys that wield the plow and spade, Where the log cabin stands, in the bonnie Buckeye shade.

We'll wheel it to the capital, and place it there elate, For a token and a sign of the Bonnie Buckeye State!