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 CURTIS

CURTIS

He was in the lower house of the state legisla- ture, 1836-38; and was a Whig representative in the 32d and 33d congresses, 1851-o5. He was made colonel of the 58th Pennsylvania volun- teers in 1861, resigning from the service July 2, 1863. He then removed to Erie, Pa., was a Re- publican representative in the 43d congresses, 1873-7."), and was defeated for the 44th congress. He dietl in Erie, Pa., March 17, 1883.

CURTIS, Charles, representative, was born at Xortli Toiieka. Kan., Jan. 2.5, 1860; son of O. A. and Ellen (Papjian) Cartis; and grandson of "William and Permelia Curtis and of Louis and Julia Pappan. As a boy lie was an entlmsiastic horseman, liis grandfather owning a stable of running horses and he acting as jockey in re- peated races from 1869 to 1876. He was admitted to the bar in 1881, and achieved a reputation as a criminal lawyer. He was elected county at- torney of Shawnee county in 1884 and was re- elected in 1886. In 1892 he was nominated by the Republicans of the fourth Kan.sas district as a representative in the 53d congress, in opposition to a candidate of the People's party and the Democrats, which fusion liad carried the district at the previous election by a majority of five thousand. He was elected by a vote of nearly 2800 over all the opposition candidates. He was re-elected to the •54th, 5.5th and 56th congresses, serving, 1893-1901.

CURTIS, Edward, surgeon, was born in Prov- idence, R.I., June 4, 1838; son of George and Julia (Bridgham) Curtis; grandson of David and Susanna Curtis, and a descendant of Ephraim Curtis, first settler of Worcester, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard in 1859 and in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1864. He joined the Union army as med- ical cadet in Septem- ber, 1861, and was promoted acting as- sistant surgeon in 1863; assistant sur- geon in 1864 and brevet captain and major March 13. 1865. He remained in the United States army in charge of the mi- croscopical section of the medical museum until 1870 when he resigned to take up the prac- tice of his profe.ssion in New York city. He was chosen lecturer on histologj- in the College of physicians and surgeons in 1870, and pro- fessor of materia medica and therapeutics in 1873, becoming i>r(>fessor emeritus in 1886. He was assistant surgeon of the New York eye and

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ear infirmary, 1872-74; surgecn, 1874-76, and became medical director of the Equitable life assurance society in 1876, when he gave up his private practice. He did mucli work in develop- ing the art of pliotographing through the micro- scope. He published Catalofjue of tJie Microscopi- cal Section of the U.S. Army Medical Museum {l^TiQ) \ Manual of General Medicinal Tecknolorfy (1883).

CURTIS, Edward Lewis, educator, was born at Ann Arbor. Mich., Oct. 13, 18.53; son of Wil- liam Stanton and Martha Augusta (Leach) Cur- tis; grand.son of Lewis Curtis, and a descendant of Thomas Curtis of Wethersfield, Conn., wha died in 1681. His mother was a descendant on her maternal side, through Judah Paddock Spooner, of John and Priscilla Alden. He was graduated from Yale in 1874 and from Union theological seminary in 1879. He then spent two years in study in Germany and in 1881 became an instructor in McCormick theological school. Chicago, 111. He was advanced to the full pro- fessorship of Old Testament literature and exe- gesis in 1886, resigning in 1891 to accept the Hobnes professorship of Hebrew in Yale univer- sity. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Hanover college in 1886 and that of D.D. from Yale in 1891.

CURTIS, George Martin, representative, was born near Oxford, Chenango county, X.Y., April 1, 1844; son of John S. and Elizabeth M. (Car- penter) Curtis ; grandson of William Curtis, and a descendant of Samuel Curtis of Massachusetts. In 1856 he removed with his parents, who were farmers, to Ogle countj". 111., where he was edu- cated in the common schools and at the Rock River seminar}-. Mount Morris, 111. He was clerk in a store at Rochelle, 111., 1863-65, and en- gaged in merchandising at Cortland, 111., 186.5-67. The latter year lie removed to Clinton, Iowa, where he engaged in the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds and lumber. He was a member of the 22d general assembly of Iowa, a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1892, and a Republican representative in the 54th and 55th congresises, .'jervinj;. 1S9.5-99.

CURTIS, George Ticknor, lawyer, was born at Watertowii, Ma.vs.. Nov. 28, 1812; son of C'apt. Benjamin and Lois (R<>V)bins) Curtis. His grand- mother, Elizabeth Billings Curtis, after the death of her liusband Dr. Benjamin Curtis, was mar- ried to Eli.sha Ticknor, and their son, George Tick- nor, was step-uncle to George Ticknor Curtis and to his brother. Judge Benjamin Robbins Curtis. Geo- je Ticknor Curtis was graduated at Harvard in 1832 and in 1836 was admitted to the Suffolk bar. During the winter of 1836-37 he practised in Worce.ster. settling in Boston in the latter year. He was a representative in the state legis-