Necrology 
E. S. Hubbard and 
CHARLES R. HILL 
Charles R. Hill was born at Albion, 
N. Y., Feb. 4, 1857. For several years 
prior to 1889 he was employed as a 
clerk in the audit office of L. S. & M. S. 
Ry. Co. 
In 1889 he resigned this position and 
went to Palatka, Fla., where he was 
employed by the J. T. & K. W. Ry. Co. 
on passenger accounts and as traveling 
auditor. In 1891 he was at St. August¬ 
ine, Fla., employed in the United States 
engineers’ department under Capt. 
Black and engaged in the examination 
of rivers and harbors on the west coast 
preparing statistics relating to the 
same. 
For about six years (1893-9) he was 
traveling auditor on the Santa Fe sys¬ 
tem under W. W. Pope, local auditor. 
In 1899 he resigned this position and 
accepted a position with the R. S. & 
M. S. Ry. Co. in the general office, tak¬ 
ing full charge of station accounts and 
was also register of contracts. In 1903 
he was employed by the so-called Chi¬ 
cago Short Line Ry. 
In 1905 he was with the C. H. & D. 
Ry. Co., at Cincinnati, Ohio, in charge 
pf station accounts. In 1906 he was 
in the office of the National Surety 
Company at New York, N. Y. 
Edgar A. Wright 
In 1907 or 1908 he retired from busi¬ 
ness and came to Orange County, Flor¬ 
ida, for a long rest. 
He then held a position for several 
years with the E. O. Painter Fertilizer 
Company, who greatly regret his loss. 
FRANK DURAND CURTIS 
Frank Durand Curtis died Friday, 
Jan. 8th, at his home on Elm St., Har¬ 
rington Park, of hemorrhage of the 
lungs resulting from blood pressure 
from which he had suffered for eight 
weeks. He was 54 years of age, having 
been born in Ravenna, Ohio. He had 
lived in Harrington Park for seven 
years. 
For a number of years the deceased 
was a member of the firm of Adams, 
Curtis & Chambers, court stenogra¬ 
phers of New York City, and at the 
time of his death was with the Great 
Northern Railroad in the New York 
office. Shortly before his death his wife 
had undergone an operation at the Ny- 
ack Hospital, and her husband’s serious 
condition was withheld from her until 
the last. He is survived only by Mrs. 
Curtis. 
The funeral services were held at his 
residence and were largely attended, 
about one hundred friends from in and 
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