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Curtis, George Ticknor, legislator, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 28, 1812, in Watertown, Mass. He was an eminent lawyer of New York City; and while engaged in the practice of law in Boston, Mass., in 1836-62 was a member of the state legislature. 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; 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 March

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New York City. Curtis, George William, journalist, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 24, 1824, in Providence, R.I. To Putnam's Monthly he con28, 1894, in

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tributed The Potiphar Papers, a spirited sa-

upon society; and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more

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ambitious novel called

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For thirty-

years he filled the Easy Chair department of the Harper's Monthly; and in 186392 was the political editor of the 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, in West New Brighton, N.Y. Curtis, Harriet F., journalist, author, was bom in 1813 in Vermont. She organized the first known woman's club. She was the author of Kate in Search of a Husband; The Smugglers; Truth's Pilgrimage; and Jessie's iive

Flirtations. She died in 1889. Curtis, Harvey, clergyman, college president, was born May 30, 1806, in Adams,. N.Y. In 1843-58 he held pastorates in Madison, Ind., and Chicago, 111.; and in 1858 became president of Knox college at Galesburg, 111. He died Sept. 18, 1862, in Galesburg, 111.

Curtis, H. Holbrook, physician, author, was Dec. 15, 1856, in New York City. He is a specialist in laryngology; and restored the voice of Campanini, the famous tenor. He is the author of Voice Building and Tone Plac-

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Heber Doust, astronomer, scientwas born June 27, 1872, in Muskegon, Mich. He graduated from the university of Michigan with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. and in 1902 received the degree of Ph.D. Curtis,

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from the university of Virginia. In 18971900 he was professor of mathematics and astronomy at the university of the Pacific. In 1902-04 he was assistant in the Lick observatory at California; and since 1904 has been assistant astronomer in that institution. He has made valuable researches in spectography; and in spectroscopic binaries.

Curtis, Hiram Humphrey, soldier, merchant, banker, prohibitionist, was born Dee. 6, 1844, at Geneva, now called Lake Geneva, Wis. He was educated at Beloit college. Early in life he was engaged in the mercantile business; and for the last quarter of a century has been engaged in banking, now at Castlewood, S.D. During the civil war he was a member of company B, fortieth regiment Wisconsin volunteers and participated in various battles and skirmishes. In 1902 he was nominated on the prohibition ticket for governor of South Dakota. Curtis, Isabel Gordon, journalist, author, was born April 24, 1863, in Scotland. In 1900-03 she was associate editor of Good Housekeeping; and is now editor of the woman's department of the Success Magazine. She is the author of The Making of a.

Housewife. Curtis, James Freeman, soldier, in Massachusetts. In 1861 he was

was born major

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the second regiment California volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. Curtis, Jam.es Langdon, merchant, 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 was the candidate of the national American party for president of the

United States. Curtis, Jeremiah, manufacturer, was bom in 1804 in Hampden, Maine. He established a bank in Calais, Maine; and later built the first railroad in Maine from Calais to Middletown. He 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 and Brown's bronchial troches amassed a large fortune. He died March 24, 1883, in New York City. Curtis, John Green, educator, anatomist, scientist, was bom Oct. 29, 1844, in New

York Gty. He graduated from Harvard with the degrees of A.B. and A.M.; and received the degrees of M.D. and LL.D. from Columbia university. Since 1883 he has been professor of physiology at Columbia university.

In 1876-81 he was attending surgeon at the Bellevue hospital; and in 1876-90 was secretary to the medical faculty of Columbia university. He has made valuable researches on physiology; and the early history of physiology.

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Curtis, Joseph Bridgham, soldier, was Oct. 25, 1836, in Providence, R.I. He enlisted in the civil war; and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the ninth regi-