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 GEORGE GRAHAM CURTISS {Ira, Abijah, Jonathan, Jona- 

 than, Joseph, '•Thomas, John, Elizabeth), b. Sheffield, Mass., Sept. 

 I, 1825 ; m. Mary, d. of Joseph H. and Hannah Lewis, of 

 Fallston, Md., June, 1861. In 1861 he removed to Fallston, 

 Md., where he now resides. He is a school-teacher and a civil 

 engineer. 



They had children : — 



Ida, b. Sheffield, Mass., Aug. 5, 1862. She is unm. and lives in 



Fallston, Md. 

 Joseph, b. Sheffield, Mass., Jan. 23, 1864. He is unm. and lives 



in Fallston, Md. 

 Dora, b. Fallston, Md., Sept. 5, 1865. She is unm. and lives in 



Fallston, Md. 

 Marion, b. Fallston, Md., March 8, 1867. She is unm. and lives 

 in Fallston, Md. 

 V. Eva, b. Fallston, Md., April 23, 1868. She is unm. and lives in 



Fallston, Md. 

 vi. Ethel, b. Fallston, Md., March 12, 1874. She is unm. and lives 

 in Fallston, Md. 



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 ABIJAH CURTISS {Orren, Abijah, Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph, 

 Thomas, John, Elizabeth), b. Sheffield, Mass., March 12, 1831 ; 

 m. Mary Elizabeth, d. of Rev. Selden and Catherine Butler 

 Haines, at Skaneateles, N. Y., June 5, 1855. He prepared for 

 college at the district school in Sheffield, and entered the Troy 

 Polytechnic School, from which he graduated in 1852. In 1853 

 he removed to New York, where he became a prominent merchant. 

 He was largely interested in the oil wells at Oil City, Penn. In 

 1873 he was offisred the presidency of the Belt Line Surface 

 .Railroad, which position he accepted and filled for a number of 

 years, resigning in favor of his brother. He then resigned from 

 active business and retired to his estate at Yonkers-on-Hudson, 

 N. Y. In 1884 he was elected president of the Sixth Avenue 

 Surface Railroad, which position he accepted and held for a short 

 period, resigning again in favor of his brother. He d. at Yonkers- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1888. His widow resides in Yonkers. 



They had children : — 

 ((?pij)i. Frank Moody, b. New York City, N. Y., May 6, 1856; m. 

 Florence Irene, d. of Ebenezer Franklin and Mary Robinson 

 Tucke, of Exeter, N. H., Oct. 12, 1881 ; m. (ii.) Josephine 

 Thompson, of Yonkers-on Hudson, N. Y., 1894. He lives in 

 Boston, Mass. 



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