Rebecca Tappan Edwards, Sept. 2, 1830, in Paris, France. She 

 d. at sea, July I'l, 1844; i^- (ii-) Laura, d. of David and Ann 

 Aspinwall Hadden, of New York City, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1856. 

 She d. Nov. 7, 1894. He d. in New York City, N. Y., Feb. 19, 

 1 88 1. After graduating from the school in Stratford, Conn., he 

 removed to New York City, N. Y., and entered into partnership 

 with his brother Lewis Curtis, under the firm name of L. & B. 

 Curtis, silk importers. He represented the above firm in Paris 

 for upwards of twenty years, returning to New York City in 

 1844, where he resided until his death. He retired from business 

 in 1868. 



They had children : — 



i. Benjamin Farquhar, b. Philadelphia, Penn., Aug. 5, 1857; m. Eva 

 H., dau. of Edward C. Bogert, of New York City, N. Y., Sept. 

 28, 1882. She d. Nov. 18, 1883; m. (ii.) Anabel, d. of 

 Wm. B. Clarke, of New York City, N. Y., April 26, 1897. He 

 graduated from Columbia College in 1878, and from the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia College in 1881. He 

 is a practising physician in New York City, N. Y. ; attending 

 surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital since 1888; Cancer Hospital 

 since 1890; Professor of Surgery at the Woman's Medical 

 School of the New York Infirmary since 1892 ; Professor of 

 Surgery in the New York Post-graduate Medical School. In 

 1887 he wrote the Cartwright Prize Essay, College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Columbia College. In 1885 he translated into 

 English Professor Von Esmarch's " Handbuch der Kriegschirurg- 

 ischen Ischuik." In 1898 he wrote with Dr. H. R. Wharton, 

 of Philadelphia, " A Practice of Surgery." 



ii. Anne Aspinwall, b. New York City, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1859. She is 

 unm. and resides in New York City, N. Y. 



iii. William Hadden, b. New York City, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1861. He is 

 unm. and resides in New York City, N. Y. 



473 

 ELIJAH EDWARDS CURTISS {Zachariah, Mitchell, Zachariah, 

 Zachariah, William, Elizabeth), b. Stratford, Conn., Jan. 21, 1779; 

 m. Elizabeth Jane . He d. in Trumbull, Conn., Dec. 



15, 1847. She d. Dec. 6, 1835, aet. 56 years. 



They had a child : — 



i. Zachariah P., b. Trumbull, Conn., m. Eliza Jane 



He d. in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1842. 

 » They had a child : — 



1. George, b. Bridgeport, Conn., 1828. He d. 



Jan. 2, 1846. 



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