Curtis, Harris George

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• Reference Number: 7275
• 1895 State Census: 1895, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Biography: 1908; History of Winnebago County, page 922
• Obituary: 1914
• Biography: Aft 1914; Unknown Author

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1895 State Census:
Name:Harris Curtis
Census Date:1895
Residence County:Outagamie
Residence State:Wisconsin
Locality:Appleton Ward 1
Line:23
Roll:v226_17

Biography:
HISTORY OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY
As a progressive and enterprising citizen and business man Mr. Crawford was a success. He was a man of marked individuality, independent in thought and action; a man among men, whose presence will be missed in the business and social world, and most of all in his home circle. He is survived bv his wife, Mrs. Amber (Hay) Crawford, to whom he was married on June 29, 1887. One daughter, by a former marriage, Mrs. Jay A. Hinman, of Oshkosh. David B. Curtis, Jr., is a wide awake, energetic and progressive business man of Oshkosh, Wis., whose honorable dealings and consistent life have gained for him universal confidence and respect. He is a native of Chicago, I11., and was born December 28, 1868, and is the second child of a family of three children born to David B. and Mary E. (Wilson) Curtis. The father, a native of Vermont, settled in Wisconsin in 1861 and engaged in railroading, and for thirty years was conductor on the Northwestern Railway, running from Chicago to Green Bay. Since leaving the railway service he has made his home in Oshkosh, where his wife, who was a native of Michigan, died in 1906 at the age of 67 years. Our subject acquired a good education in the public schools of Oshkosh, and at the age of 16 began clerking in the National Union Bank of Oshkosh. A few months later he secured employment with the Milwaukee & Lake Shore Railroad Company, now the Northwestern, beginning as baggageman and working his way up, and acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business, until 1897, when he was made passenger and freight agent and placed in full charge of the local interests of the Northwestern Railway Company at Oshkosh. Mr. Curtis is a man of fine personal qualities, affable, courteous, gentlemanly in his bearing and withal manly in character and fond of good comradeship. He is an active member of the Masonic order, including the chapters. a Knight of Pythias, and also belongs to the Oshkosh Yacht Club. On May 15, 1907, Mr. Curtis married Miss Laura, daughter of the late 0. D. Peck, of Oshkosh, a woman of superior endowments and refined and cultivated tastes, a worthy companion of her worthy husband.

Biography:
Harris George Curtis was one of Shiocten's early settlers arriving in 1854. His father arrived shortly after that. H.G. Curtis was a published poet and the University Library in Appleton has two volumes of his book. He was postmaster and brought the first horses into the area. In the book "Shadow of the Wolf" he wrote a eloquent piece about the early settler women that was quite forward thinking.... He wrote a section about Shiocten/Bovina in the old book "History of Outagamie County" He passed away in 1914 in Appleton

Harris married Tabor, Mercy 3 Sep 1854. Mercy was born 2 Dec 1833, , , Vermont, USA; died 19 Sep 1894, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Obituary: Aft 12 Mar 1935; Appleton Post Crescent

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Harriet married Ayers, Adelbert John Bef 1900. Adelbert was born 6 Apr 1862, , , New York, USA; died 1 Jun 1940, , , Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Myrtle married Mitchell, Curtis 23 Sep 1896. Curtis was born 9 Sep 1871, Bovina, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; died 22 Dec 1947, Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet]