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Curtis, Lemuel J – Curtis, William Woodside

Curtis, Lemuel J

manufacturer, philanthropist, was born Jan. 15, 1814, in Meriden, Conn. Engaging in the manufacture of this ware, he was in 1852 one of the organizers of the Meriden Britannia company. He accumulated a large fortune by diligent industry, and at his death in 1888 left between $700,000 and $800,000 to found an asylum for destitute children and old women, which he called Curtis home and is located in Meriden.

Curtis, Moses Ashley

botanist, author, was born in 1808, in Massachusetts. He was a botanist and episcopal clergyman of North Carolina; and the author of Edible Fungi of North Carolina; Contributions to Mycology of North America; Catalogue of the Plants of North Carolina; Esculent Fungi; and Indigenous and Native Plants of North Carolina. He died in 1872.

Curtis, Newton Martin

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 21, 1835, in Depeyster, N. Y. He was appointed major-general by brevet for gallant and meritorious services during the war and assigned duty as chief of staff of Major-General Ord. He was a member of the assembly from 1884 to 1890, inclusive; and was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Curtis, Samuel Ives

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 5, 1844, in Union, Conn. He is a congregational clergyman and professor in the Theological seminary of Chicago. He is the author of The Name Maccabee; The Levitical Priests; Ingersoll and Moses; and The Date of our Gospels.

Curtis, Samuel Ryan

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1807, in Ohio. He studied and practiced law in Ohio. He was elected from Iowa as a member of the house of representatives in the thirty-fifth congress; and was reelected to the thirtysixth and thirty-seventh congresses. He resigned in 1861 to serve as a brigadier and major-general in the union army during the rebellion. He died Dec. 25, 1866, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Curtis, Thomas

clergyman, was born in 1780, in England. He was pastor for some years in Charleston, S. C., and subsequently established a young ladies' school at Limestone Spring. He died in

Curtis, Thomas F

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 26, 1815, in England. He was a baptist divine who was for some years president of Lewisburg university, Pennsylvania. He was the author of Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years (1857); and The Human Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures, a work which occupies the Colenso position on the subject and is in places more advanced. He died Aug. 9, 1872, in Cambridge, Mass.

Curtis, William Edmund

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1824, in Litchfield, Conn. In 1871 he was elected judge of the New York supreme court, and at the time of his death was chief justice of the superior court. He died July 6, 1880, in Watertown, Conn.

Curtis, William Eleroy

journalist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1850, in Akron, Ohio. He was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the republic of Central and South America; special envoy to the vatican; special envoy to the court of Spain, and executive officer international American conference.

He is the author of The United States and Foreign Powers; Life of Zachariah Chandler; The Capitals of Spanish America; The Land of the Nihilist; Venezuela; The Yankees of the East; and Japan Sketches.

Curtis, William Woodside

educator, author, was born Dec. 22, 1858, in Freeport, Maine. He has been principal of high schools in Maine and Massachusetts; and is now principal of the high school of Pawtucket, R. I. He is one of the authors of the English Classics Series; and contributes extensively to current literature.