Curry, John Roake – Curtis, James Langdon
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, Solomon S
business man, legislator, was born June 12, 1839, in Canada. In 1862 he moved to northern Michigan and engaged in mining, and also in exploring for the Sault Ste. Marie Canal company, and subsequently plored for the same company at Marquette. In 1879 he went to Menominee, where he opened the Curry mine, and subsequently the Beauford mine. He has exbeen identified with Ironwood, and was one of its founders. He was the first president of the First National bank of that city; established and first president of the People's bank; and is president of the Metropolitan Iron and Land company. In 1875 he represented Marquette county in the Michigan state legislature, and in 1886 was the democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor.
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.
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins
lawyer, legislator, jurist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1809, in Watertown, Mass. He settled in Boston in 1834; and served two years in the state legislature. In 1851 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, which position he resigned in 1857. In March, 1868, he acted as one of the counsel for President Andrew Johnson, before the high court of impeachment. He was the author of Reports of Cases in the Circuit Courts of the United States; United States Supreme Court Decisions; and Digest and Decisions of United States Supreme Court.
He died Sept. 15, 1874, in Newport, R. I.
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, Carlton B
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1811, in Madison county, N. Y. He was elected to the legislature in 1836, 1837 and 1838, and was elected to the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses. He served in the war of the rebellion as colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment. He was elected to the forty-third congress. He died March 17, 1883, in Erie, Pa.
Curtis, Mrs. Caroline Gard- Iner
author, was born in 1827 in New York. She is the author of From Madge to Margaret; and The Love of a Lifetime.
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 Ticknor
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 28, 1812, in Watertown, Mass. He was an eminent lawyer of New York city, well known as a legal writer and biographer. He was the author of Digest of English and American Admiralty Decisions; Digest of Decisions of Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the United States; American Conveyancer; Law of Patents; Equity Precedents; Inventor's Manual; Law of Copyright; Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen; Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisdiction of United States Courts; A History of the Constitution of the United States; Life of James Buchanan; Life of Daniel Webster; Creation or Evolution; Last Years of Daniel Webster; and John Charaxes, a novel. He died in 1894.
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, George William
journalist, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 24, 1824, in Providence, R. I. To Putnam's Monthly he contributed The Potiphar Papers, spirited satire upon society; and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more ambitious novel, Trumps. For thirty-five years he filled the Easy Chair department of Harper's Monthly, and from 1863-92 he was the political editor of Harper's Weekly. Besides the volumes already named, his writings include Nile Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The Howadji in Syria; James Russell Lowell, an Address; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; From the Easy Chair; and Literary and Social Essays. He died Aug. 31, 1892, on Staten Island, N. Y.
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.