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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. educator, lecturer, editor and author; and publisher of the Informer of Urbana, Ohio. He is the president and founder of the Ourry normal and industrial institute of Urbana, Ohio. ful

Curry, George, soldier, merchant, governor,

was born April 3, 1863, in Bayou Sara, La. In 1875 he moved to Dodge City; and in 1879

settled coln county,

Lin-

in

N.M. In 1882 he became man-

ager

of

a

wholesale business;

and retail and was treasurer, sessor and sheriif

as-

of

his county. In 1894 he became a member of the territorial senate; and was made president of the senate.

During the SpanishAmerican war he duly served as first lieutenant in the rough riders; and was promoted to a captaincy. He joined the United States cavalry; was quartermaster; subsequently was in command of the regimental scouts of the eleventh cavalry; and had command of the advance guard at the battle of San Mateo, where General Lawton was killed. In 1901 he was appointed first civil governor of the province of Ambos Camarines; became chief of police of the city of Manila; in 1904-05 was governor of the province of Isabela; and was then made governor of Samar. In 1907-11 he was governor of New Mexico. Curry, George Law, journalist, governor, was born July 2, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1848 he founded the Oregon Free Press, the first weekly paper on the Pacific coast.

In 1849 he was appointed the first secretary of the territory. In 1854-59 he was governor of Oregon territory. He died July 28, 1878, in Portland, Oregon. Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe, soldier, educator, congressman, author, was bom June 5, 1825, in Lincoln county, Ga. He attended the academies in Georgia and Alabama; subsequently received the and degree of LL.D. was a graduate of the

Harvard

law

school. for three sessions as a representative in the state Alalegislature of bama; and in 1857-61

He

served

he was a representative to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con-

served as a member of the confederate congress and during the war was a lieutenant-colonel of a cavalry regiment. He has been president of Howard college, Ala.; professor in' Richmond college; and was president of trustees of Richmond college. He has served as a minister plenipotentiary to Spain; and has been trustee and general gresses.

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manager of the John F. Slater fund, and the Peabody Education fund. He was the author of Baptists and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differences in Faith and Practice; Constitutional Government in Spain; Gladstone, a Study; Southern States of the American Union and a sketch of George Peabody and a History of the Peabody Education Fund Through Thirty Years. He died about 1905 in Washington, D.C.

Curry, John, lawyer, jurist. In 1866-68 he chief justice of the supreme court of

was

California.

Curry, Otway, journalist, legislator, poet,

was

bom March

26, 1804, in Greenfield, Ohio.

He became one

of the editors of the Hesperian at Columbus, Ohio; was a member of the legislature in 1836-37; and was again in the legislature in 1842. He was the author of Love of the Past, a poem. He died Feb. 17, 1855, in Maysville, Ohio. Curry, Samuel Silas, educator, author, was born in 1847 in Chatata, E.Tenn. He is an educator of Boston whose specialty is the culture of expression. He is the author of The Province of Expression; Lessons in Vocal Expression; and Imagination and Dramatic Instinct. Since 1891 has been librarian

Boston art

club.

Curry, Solomon

S., business man, legislator, was born June 12, 1839, in Canada. In 1879 he went to Menominee, where he opened the Curry mine; and

subsequently the Beauford mine. He has been identified with Ironwood, and was one of founders. He was first president of First national bank of that city; established and was first president of the Peoits

the the

ple's bank; and is the 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. Curtin, Andrew Gregg, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born April 22, 1815, in Belief onte, Pa. He studied at the Dickinson college law school

and was admitted to in 1839. In 1848 he was a presidential elector. In 1855 he recommended the establishment of nor-

practice

mal

schools

and

his

suggestion was adopted. In 1855-58 he was secretary of state and superintendent of com-

mon schools for Pennsylvania. In 1866-67 he was the fifteenth governor; and was minister to Russia in 1869. In 1881-87 he was a