Curtis, Harris George

1832 - 1914  (82 years)    Has no ancestors but 5 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Curtis, Harris George
  Born	25 Jul 1832	Richmond, , Québec, Canada
  Gender	Male
  1895 State Census	1895	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Name:Harris Curtis Census Date:1895 Residence County:Outagamie Residence State:Wisconsin Locality:Appleton Ward 1 Line:23 Roll:v226_17
  	1895 Census Appleton Page 002
  Biography	1908  [1]
  History of Winnebago County, page 922
  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.
  Obituary	1914
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  Died	23 Aug 1914	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Biography	Aft 1914
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  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
  	Curtis, Harris George Biography
  	Curtis, Harris George Biography
  Reference Number	7275
  Buried	Bovina Cemetery, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin
  	Curtis, Harris George Bovina Cemetery, Shiocton, Wisconsin
  Person ID	I320098	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family	Tabor, Mercy,   b. 2 Dec 1833, , , Vermont, USA ,   d. 19 Sep 1894, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Married	3 Sep 1854
  Children	1. Curtis, George Luther,   b. 12 Jul 1855, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 12 Mar 1935, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 79 years)   2. Curtis, Philinda Elisabeth,   b. 21 Feb 1858, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 19 Aug 1889, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 31 years)   3. Curtis, Mary Hanna,   b. 17 Aug 1860, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 31 Jan 1907  (Age 46 years)   4. Curtis, Harriet Adeline,   b. 16 Oct 1864, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 12 Oct 1942, Superior, Douglas, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 77 years)   5. Curtis, Myrtle Lorina,   b. 23 Feb 1873, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 5 May 1936, Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA  (Age 63 years)
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F206992	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 25 Jul 1832 - Richmond, , Québec, Canada 1895 State Census - 1895 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Died - 23 Aug 1914 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Buried - - Bovina Cemetery, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S855] History of Winnebago County, Lawson, Publius V., (Lawson, Publius V., 1853-1920. / History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin : its cities, towns, resources, people Volume II (1908) [The history of Winnebago County], pp. 677-1206f ff.).