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 HEJRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. ment of the New York state militia. He died Dec. 13, 1862, near Fredericksburg. Curtis, John S., merchant, jurist, was bom Jan. 18, 1862, in Double Springs, Ala. He received a thorough education in the public schools of his native state. In 1886-98 he served twelve years as clerk of the circuit court for Winston county, Ala. He is a prominent member of the republican party; and for many years a successful merchant. Since 1904 he has been judge of the probate court for Winston county, Ala. Curtis, Josiah, soldier, physician, naturalist, author, was born in 1816 in Wethersfield, Conn. In 1861 he was called to Washington to superintend the mortality statistics of the United States census of 1860. He there entered the army, and remained with it until 1865, when he took up his residence in Knoxville, Ky. In 1872 he filled the place of surgeon, microscopist, and naturalist to the United States geological survey and in 1873 became chief medical officer of the United States Indian service. He author of a report on the Hygiene of Massachusetts. He is noted as the discoverer of '

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collodion. He died in Louisville, Ky. Curtis, Lemuel J., manufacturer, philanthropist, was born Jan. 15, 1814, in Meriden,

Conn. In 1852 he was one of the organizers of the Meriden Britannia company. He accumulated a large fortune by diligent industry; and at his death left about eight hundred thousand dollars to found an asylum for destitute children and old women, called Curtis Home, of Meriden, Conn. He died in 1888 in Meriden, Conn.

of The Indian Book, a record of the primitive art of music and poetry of the North American Indians. 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 civil war; and assigned duty as chief of staff of Major-General Ord, He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1884-90; and in 1891-97 he was a representative to the fifty-second, fiftythird and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican.

Curtis, Olin Alfred, educator, theologian, was born Dec. 10, 1850, in Frankfort, Maine. In 1889-95 he was professor of

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systematic theology at the Boston university; and since 1896 has filled the same chair at the Drew theological seminary of Madison, N.J. He is the author of The Christian Faith. Curtis,

Samuel Ives, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 5, 1844, in Union, Conn. He is a congregational clergyman; and professor seminary of Chicago, 111. the author of The Name Maccabee; The Levitical Priests; IngersoU 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. In 1857-63 he was a representative from Iowa to the thirty-fifth, the in the Theological

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ty-seventh congresses. He resigned in 1861 to serve as a brigadier and major-general in the union army during the civil war ; and par-

Curtis, Lewis, clergyman, author, was born 24, 1847, in Hocking county, Ohio. He served in the civil war in the twenty-

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fourth Iowa regiment. In 1870 he became a pastor of the methodist episcopal church. He is the author of History of the General Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Curtis, niattoon Honroe, educator, author, was born Oct. 19, 1858, in Rome, N.Y. Since 1891 he has been professor of philosophy in the Western reserve university of Qeveland, Ohio. He is the author of Locke's Ethics; Philosophy and Physical Science; Philosophy in America; and other works. Curtis, Moses Ashley, botanist, author, was born in 1808 in Massachusetts. He was a botanist and episcopal 'clergyman of North Carolina. He was 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 in North Carolina. Curtis, Natalie, musician, author, was bom in New York. She studied music in France and Germany. She has made a study of the musical lore and pictorial art of the North American Indians; and has been a lecturer before scientific and educational institutions. Her principal work has been the compilation

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ticipated in numerous battles and skirmishes. He died Dec. 25, 1866, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. clergyman, educator, was

He was pastor for in Charleston, S.C. ; and subsequently established a young ladies' school at Limestone Spring. He died in 1858 in South born in 1780 in England.

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Carolina. Curtis, Thomas F., clergyman, author, was born Sept. 26, 1815, in England. He was a baptist divine; and was for some years president of Lewisburg university. Pa. He was the author of Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years ; and The Human Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures. He died Aug. 9, 1872, in Cambridge, Mass. Curtis, Warden A., journalist, author, was born Feb. 1, 1867, in New Mexico. Since 1889 he has been engaged in journalism. He is the author of Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton. Curtis, William Baker, soldier, was bom in Maryland. In 1862 he was captain in the