Curtis, Jeremiah – Cushing, Jonathan Peter
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.
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.
Curtiss, Mrs. Abbey
poet, was born Sept. 15, 1820, in Pomfret, Conn. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Home Ballads.
Curtiss, Frank H
educator, college president, was born Oct. 2, 1857, in Coldwater, Mich. In 1879 he graduated from the New York Normal school; and was instructor in the training department of that institution for two years. For two years he was president of the Brunson Military academy, South Carolina; for four years was president of the Aiken institute, South Carolina; and for one year was president of the Thomasville Female college, North Carolina. He has taught in the city schools of Titusville, Pa., and Kansas City, Mo.; and for the past seven years has been superintendent of city schools of Shelby, Tenn.
Curtiss, George Lewis
educator, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 21, 1835, in Columbia, Ohio. He attended the Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio, and the Medical college of Indiana. For two years he filled the chair of mathematics in Moore's Hill college; for ten years filled the same chair in the Medical college of Indiana; for seven years was professor of historical theology in the De Pauw university; and for six years was professor of diseases of the nervous system in the Medical college of the New Orleans university. During all this time he filled pastorates in the Methodist Episcopal church; and now fills a pastorate in Columbus, Ind. He is the author of Monograph on Methodism; Sketches from the Romances of American History; Manual of Methodist Episcopal Church History; Evolution of Christian Doctrine; Interrogatory Studies of the Bible; and A Study of the Constitution of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has received the degrees of A. M., M. D. and D. D.
Curtiss, Marilla S
poet, was born May 27, 1822, in Oswego, N. Y. Her poems have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines of America, and have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.
Curtiss, Romaine J
physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 1, 1840, in Richland county, Ohio. He has been professor of bacteriology, hygiene and general pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. He has attained eminent success as a physician and surgeon at Joliet, Ill., where he is surgeon in charge of St. Joseph's hospital; health commissioner; and surgeon to the Joliet Steel company.
Curwen, Samuel
author, was born in 1715, in Massachusetts. He was a loyalist who lived in England during the American revolution, but returned after its close to his native town of Salem.
While an exile he kept a journal which contains much valuable information concerning loyalist exiles. It was first published in 1842, with the title Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, an American Refugee in England, 1775-1784. He died in 1802.
Cusack, Mary E
philanthropist, was born in 1830. She is known as The Nun of Kenmare.
Cushing, Caleb
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Jan. 17, 1800, in Salisbury, Mass.
In 1825 and 1826 he served in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1843; was appointed, by President Tyler, commis sioner and envoy to China, and as such negotiated an important treaty. In 1846 he was elected to the legislature; in 1847 was chosen colonel of the Massachusetts regiment of volunteers for the Mexican war; and was afterward appointed a brigadier-general.
In 1850 he was for the fifth time elected to the legislature; and in 1851 was made a justice of the supreme court of the state.
He was attorney-general from 1853-57.
He was again elected to the legislature of his native state. He was the author of Historical and Political Review of the Late Revolution in France, 1833; Practical Principles of Political Economy; Life of William Henry Harrison; Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States, 1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History of Newburyport; and The Treaty of Washington. He died Jan. 2, 1879, in Newburyport, Mass.
Cushing, Frank Hamilton
ethnologist, author, was born July 22, 1857, in Northeast, Pa. He was curator of the entire Indian collection of the National museum for the centennial exposition at Philadelphia. In 1879 he was assistant ethnologist of the United States bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian institution.
Cushing, Jonathan Peter
educator, college president, was born March 12, 1793, in Rochester, N. H. He became a tutor in Hampden Sydney college in 1818, and professor of chemistry and natural philosophy two years later. This chair he held for two years, when he became the president of the college. He died April 25, 1835, in Raleigh, N. C.