His parents are Solomon Curtiss and Sarah Cook.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTISS, son of Solomon and Sarah Leavenworth (Cook) Curtiss, was born June 25, 1831, in Bristol, Conn. He was fitted for college in Williston (Mass ) Seminary and the Sally Lewis Academy in Southington. He left college at the end of Freshman year,
but joined the class [of 1852] again the second term of Junior year.
After graduation he taught a year at Plainville, Conn, and spent the three years following in travel and studying chemistry and geology at the University of Gottingen. In 1857-58 he was principal of the High School at Madison, Wisc, and in 1859-60 of the preparatory department of Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. In 1861 he taught at Dixon, Ill, the following year served six months in the First Illinois Artillery, Battery F, and in 1863 taught
at Franklin Grove, Ill. In 1864 he returned to Connecticut and spent four years in farming, and then resumed teaching in Illinois, at Cortland and other towns in Dekalb County, where he continued until 1881.
He then removed to Chicago, where he resided for over thirty years and was connected with the Deering Harvester Co as mechanic until 1908.
Mr Curtiss died at his home in Chicago, September 26, 1912, at the age of 81 years. He was a member of Wesley Methodist Church, Chicago.
He married, September 7, 1864, Mary, daughter of Rev. M Decker, a Methodist clergyman, and Hester (Dunlap) Decker, of Franklin Grove, Ill, and had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son graduated from the University Dental College in 1898, the second son from the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College in 1901, and the youngest son from Northwestern University in 1908.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTISS, son of Solomon and Sarah Leavenworth (Cook) Curtiss, was born June 25, 1831, in Bristol, Conn. He was fitted for college in Williston (Mass ) Seminary and the Sally Lewis Academy in Southington. He left college at the end of Freshman year,
but joined the class [of 1852] again the second term of Junior year.
After graduation he taught a year at Plainville, Conn, and spent the three years following in travel and studying chemistry and geology at the University of Gottingen. In 1857-58 he was principal of the High School at Madison, Wisc, and in 1859-60 of the preparatory department of Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. In 1861 he taught at Dixon, Ill, the following year served six months in the First Illinois Artillery, Battery F, and in 1863 taught
at Franklin Grove, Ill. In 1864 he returned to Connecticut and spent four years in farming, and then resumed teaching in Illinois, at Cortland and other towns in Dekalb County, where he continued until 1881.
He then removed to Chicago, where he resided for over thirty years and was connected with the Deering Harvester Co as mechanic until 1908.
Mr Curtiss died at his home in Chicago, September 26, 1912, at the age of 81 years. He was a member of Wesley Methodist Church, Chicago.
He married, September 7, 1864, Mary, daughter of Rev. M Decker, a Methodist clergyman, and Hester (Dunlap) Decker, of Franklin Grove, Ill, and had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son graduated from the University Dental College in 1898, the second son from the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College in 1901, and the youngest son from Northwestern University in 1908.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
His parents are Solomon Curtiss and Sarah Cook.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTISS, son of Solomon and Sarah Leavenworth (Cook) Curtiss, was born June 25, 1831, in Bristol, Conn. He was fitted for college in Williston (Mass ) Seminary and the Sally Lewis Academy in Southington. He left college at the end of Freshman year,
but joined the class [of 1852] again the second term of Junior year.
After graduation he taught a year at Plainville, Conn, and spent the three years following in travel and studying chemistry and geology at the University of Gottingen. In 1857-58 he was principal of the High School at Madison, Wisc, and in 1859-60 of the preparatory department of Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. In 1861 he taught at Dixon, Ill, the following year served six months in the First Illinois Artillery, Battery F, and in 1863 taught
at Franklin Grove, Ill. In 1864 he returned to Connecticut and spent four years in farming, and then resumed teaching in Illinois, at Cortland and other towns in Dekalb County, where he continued until 1881.
He then removed to Chicago, where he resided for over thirty years and was connected with the Deering Harvester Co as mechanic until 1908.
Mr Curtiss died at his home in Chicago, September 26, 1912, at the age of 81 years. He was a member of Wesley Methodist Church, Chicago.
He married, September 7, 1864, Mary, daughter of Rev. M Decker, a Methodist clergyman, and Hester (Dunlap) Decker, of Franklin Grove, Ill, and had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son graduated from the University Dental College in 1898, the second son from the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College in 1901, and the youngest son from Northwestern University in 1908.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTISS, son of Solomon and Sarah Leavenworth (Cook) Curtiss, was born June 25, 1831, in Bristol, Conn. He was fitted for college in Williston (Mass ) Seminary and the Sally Lewis Academy in Southington. He left college at the end of Freshman year,
but joined the class [of 1852] again the second term of Junior year.
After graduation he taught a year at Plainville, Conn, and spent the three years following in travel and studying chemistry and geology at the University of Gottingen. In 1857-58 he was principal of the High School at Madison, Wisc, and in 1859-60 of the preparatory department of Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. In 1861 he taught at Dixon, Ill, the following year served six months in the First Illinois Artillery, Battery F, and in 1863 taught
at Franklin Grove, Ill. In 1864 he returned to Connecticut and spent four years in farming, and then resumed teaching in Illinois, at Cortland and other towns in Dekalb County, where he continued until 1881.
He then removed to Chicago, where he resided for over thirty years and was connected with the Deering Harvester Co as mechanic until 1908.
Mr Curtiss died at his home in Chicago, September 26, 1912, at the age of 81 years. He was a member of Wesley Methodist Church, Chicago.
He married, September 7, 1864, Mary, daughter of Rev. M Decker, a Methodist clergyman, and Hester (Dunlap) Decker, of Franklin Grove, Ill, and had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son graduated from the University Dental College in 1898, the second son from the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College in 1901, and the youngest son from Northwestern University in 1908.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
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