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Currier, Frank Dunklee – Curtis, Alva

Currier, Frank Dunklee

legislator, was born Oct. 30, 1853, in Canaan, N. H. He served with distinction in the New Hampshire state senate in 1887, and was made president of that body. He still resides in the place of his nativity, and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol.

Curry, Daniel

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 26, 1809, in Peekskill, N. Y.

He was a methodist divine of note; and the author of New York, an Historical Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark; Fragments, Religious and Theological; and Platform Papers. He died Aug. 17, 1887, in New York city.

Curry, James L

soldier, lumberman, state senator, was born Dec. 30, 1825, in Enfield, N. Y. He served from 1861 to 1864 in an Ohio regiment, rising to the rank of colonel. He was a Michigan representative from Genesee county in 1869-70, and state senator in 1873-74.

Curry, John Roake

merchant, journalist, legislator, was born Nov. 5, 1847, in Yorktown, N. Y. He served as a member of the sixth general assembly of Colorado; was clerk in the district court of Montezuma county, Colo.; and a pioneer newspaper publisher. He is now a successful merchant of Cortez, Colo.

Curry, Otway

journalist, poet, was born March 26, 1804, in Greenfield, Ohio.

He was an Ohio journalist who published Love of the Past, a poem. He died Feb. 17, 1855, in Maysville, Ohio.

Curry, Robert-Pease

business man, legislator, was born Aug. 3, 1848, in Holderness, N. H. He is a successful shoe manufacturer; for many years has been postmaster, justice of the peace, and a member of the board of education of his native city. He is also serving as a representative in the New Hampshire state legislature.

Curry, Samuel Silas

educator, author, was born in 1847, in Tennessee. He is an educator of Boston whose specialty is the culture of expression; and the author of The Province of Expression; Lessons in Vocal Expression; and Imagination and Dramatic Instinct.

Curry, Thomas Allan

lawyer, was born Dec. 28, 1869, in Kempville, Ala. He received his education at the Howard college of Birmingham, Ala. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Clanton, Ala., and has served as prosecuting attorney for Chilton county.

Curry, Walker

physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 24, 1835, in Lincoln county, Ga. He served in the civil war; in 1862 was promoted to surgeon; and was given charge of a general hospital in Jackson, Miss. In 1869 he moved to New York city, where he soon acquired a lucrative practice.

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Curtin, Andrew Gregg

lawyer, congressman, governor, was born April 22, 1815, in Bellefonte, Pa. In 1855-58 he was secretary of state and superintendent of common schools for Pennsylvania. 1860 he was elected governor; and was reelected governor in 1863, and was active in the election of Gen. Grant to the presidency, by whom he was appointed minister to Russia in 1869. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and fortyninth congresses as a democrat.

Curtin, Jeremiah

author, was born in 1838 in Milwaukee, Wis. He is the author of Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland; Hero Tales of Ireland; Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World, collected from Oral Tradition in South Munster; Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. His translations include Tales of Three Centuries, from the Russian of Zagoskin; and The Romances of Sienkiewicz, from the Polish.

Curtis, Alva

physician, author, was born June 3, 1797, in Columbia, N. H. He was an Ohio physician and medical writer; and the author of Medical Discussions; Lectures on Midwifery; Theory and Practice of Medicine; and Medical Criticisms. He died in 1881, in Ohio.