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Curtis, Benjamin Robbins – Curtis, Julius B

Curtis, Benjamin Robbins

jurist, author, was born in 1855 in Massachusetts. He was a municipal court judge of Boston; and the author of Dottings Round the Circle, a volume of travels. He died in 1891.

Curtis, Charles

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1860, in North Topeka, Kas. He was elected county attorney of Shawnee county in 1884 for a term of two years and was re-elected in 1886. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Curtis, Edward

lawyer, congressman, was born in Vermont. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1841; and was appointed collector of New York by President Harrison.

Curtis, Edward

physician, author, was born June 4, 1838, in Providence, R.

I. He is a physician of New York who has published Manual of General Medical Technology.

Curtis, Frederic C

soldier, educator, physician, was born Oct. 19, 1843, in Unionville, S. C. He served in the civil war as private in the forty-first Wisconsin regiment; in 1872 was appointed physician to Albany; in 1877 lecturer in the summer course of the Albany Medical college; and in 1880 was professor of dermatology in the college.

Curtis, George

banker, was born about 1793 in Massachusetts. He was appointed president of the Continental bank of New York. He died in 1856 in Jacksonville, Fla.

Curtis, George M

manufacturer, congressman, was born April 1, 1844, near Oxford, N. Y. He moved to Clinton, Iowa, in 1867, since which time he has been engaged in the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds and lumber. He was a member of the twenty-second general assembly of Iowa; and delegate to the republican national convention in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Curtis, George W

poet, was born Feb. 18, 1858, in Garden Valley, Wis. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in various Wisconsin publications. He is in the hotel business at Duluth. a

Curtis, Harvey

clergyman, college president, was born May 30, 1806, in Adams, N. Y. From 1843 till 1858 he held pastorates in Madison, Ind., and Chicago, Ill. He was chosen president of Knox college at Galesburg, Ill., in 1858. He died Sept. 18, 1862, in Galesburg, Ill.

Curtis, James Langdon

presidential candidate, was born Feb. 19, 1816, in Stratford, Conn. He was nominated by the labor party for governor of Connecticut in 1884, and in 1888 became the candidate of the national American party for president.

Curtis, Jeremiah

manufacturer, was born in 1804, in Hampden, Maine.

He established a bank in Calais, Maine, and later built the first railroad in Maine, from Calais to Middletown, and accepted the abolition nomination for governor of his state. The owner of several formulas for medicines, he manufactured largely, and from the sale of Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Brown's Bronchial Troches, etc., amassed a large fortune. He died March 24, 1883, in New York city.

Curtis, Julius B

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 10, 1825, in Newton, Conn. He was appointed probate judge for the district of Stamford in 1867, and held the office for three successive elections. He was elected judge of the borough of Stamford in 1867, and as such acted as judge of the court of common pleas in Fairfield county. He was elected to the senate of Connecticut in 1850, and again in 1860.