869 

 NATHAN BULKLEY CURTISS {Elliott P., Justus B., Daniel 

 M., Mitchell, Zachariah, Zachariah, William, Elizabeth), b. Nich- 

 ols, Conn., May 14, 1 857 ; m. Mary Ann, d. of William Thatcher 

 and Harriet Lavinia Gilbert, of West Granby, Conn., Oct. 20, 

 1881. 



They had children : — 



i. Clifford Gilbert, b. Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 28, 1883. 

 ii, Elizabeth Bulkley, b. Bridgeport, May 7, 1885. 

 iii. John Burr, b. Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 6, 1887. 

 iv. Cornelia, b. Bridgeport, Conn., June 4, 1890. She d. Dec. 29, 

 1891. 



870 

 FREDERICK WILLARD CURTISS {Edwin R., Samuel B., Lev- 

 erett, Samuel, Jeremiah, Zachariah, William, Elizabeth), b. Madi- 

 son, Wis., Feb. 11, i860; m. Catherine W. Ford, of Madison, 

 Wis., Oct. 3, 1882. He is a photographer and lives in Madison, 

 Wis. 



They had children : — 



i. Mildred Harriet, b. Madison, Wis., Nov. 5, 1883. 



ii. Edwin Ford, b. Madison, Wis., Nov. 26, 1887. 



iii. Frederick Willard, b. Madison, Wis., May 29, 1895. 



872 

 HENRY HOLBROOK CURTISS {William B., Holbrook, Salmon, 

 Nehemiah, Benjamin, Josiah, William, Elizabeth), b. New York 

 City, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1856; m. Josephine, d. of Hugh and 

 Josephine (Hall) Allen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., June 19, 1884. He 

 was educated at the Columbia Grammar School, the Gunnery at 

 Washington, Conn., and the Cheshire, Conn., Military Academy, 

 where he prepared for the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale 

 College, from which institution he received the degree of Ph.B. in 

 1877. Three years later he received his degree of M.D. from 

 the Yale Medical School. During one year of his medical studies 

 he was in the office of Dr. Francis Bacon, of New Haven, as as- 

 sistant. Dr. Curtis spent eighteen months in the Vienna and 

 Paris hospitals. After his return from Europe he settled in New 

 York City, N. Y., and began a general practice which he soon 

 abandoned to make a specialty of the diseases of the respiratory 

 tract. His mechanical genius led him to invent many instru- 

 ments in nasal and throat surgery, which bear his name. He is a 



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