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The Emmet County Democrat
Petoskey, Michigan
Friday, September 24, 1875

        Died,
     At Petoskey, Mich., Thursday, September 16, 1875,
   J. F. CURTISS, in the 37th year of his age.
   
     Surprise was everywhere manifested yesterday morning
   when it became known that a telegram had been received
   announcing MR. CURTISS' death. He was taken ill on Mon-
   day. It seems that he had gone to town to make some
   purchases, and was brought home in a dying condition.
   [undreadable line]
   the following day, DR. ALLEN informed him that he could
   not live, he said to have wept, but manifested great
   joy at the sight of his friends around him.
     Deceased was born at Kingsville, O., in August, 1838,
   being 37 years of age at the time of his death. He lived
   on a farm until he was sixteen years of age, when he came
   to Elkhart and went to work at the jewelry business. At
   the breaking out of teh war he entered the army, becoming
   a Lieutenant in Co. C. of the 44th Vol. Infty. He served
   with distinction all through the sanguinary struggle,
   passing from one grade to another until he reached that
   of Colonel. He was severely wounded in the right side
   at Shiloh. COL. CURTISS was immensely popular with his
   command. His comrades loved him for his genial disposition
   and his soldierly bearing. He was ever where duty called -
   whether on the march, in the bivouac, or where the battle
   raged fiercest. *******ing in his bravery he allowed no
   man to surpass him in courage, and these traits doubly
   endeared him to men who had taken their lives in their
   hands andhad gone forth to battle for national unity. We
   believe that COL. CURTISS' regiment reinlested, so that
   he became a veteran in fact as well as in name.
     COL. CURTISS was married at the close of the war to
   MISS LUCILLE SHERWOOD; daughter of MR. B. D. SHERWOOD,
   and sister of MR. H. B. SHERWOOD. Two children, both boys,
   are the fruits of this union, forming with the young mother
   a happy group, to which the husband and father was devotedly
   attached.
     About this time the subject of our sketch engaged in the
   dry goods trade with JOHN McNAUGHTON, ESQ., in the store
   room now occupied by MR. A. R. BEARDSLEY. Subsequently MR.
   McNAUGHTON disposed of his interest to MR. CURTISS' father-
   in-law, B. D. SHERWOOD, ESQ. A few years later we find de-
   ceased in partnership with JOHN DAVENPORT, JUN., at No 78
   Main street. Previous to this time MR. CURTISS was elected
   Trustee of C***** township, which position he held till
   1874. He next moved his stock to No. 99 Main St., selling
   out in about a year to his brother, E. M. CURTISS, who had
   come from Kingsville, O., for that purpose. MR. CURTISS 
   was elected Chief Engineer of the Elkhart fire department
   in the early part of last spring, but soon after resigned
   the office and made preparations to move his family to
   Northern Michigan, where he had secured some land. Locating
   at or near Petoskey he began a new occupation with that
   earnestness of purpose which characterized all his under-
   takings, and succes was fast crowning his efforts when
   his lease of life expired, and his little family was left
   to mourn the best of earthly friends.
     There is no doubt that MR. CURTISS labored too hard of 
   late. The effects of the severe attack of lung fever to
   which he was subjected a few years ago had been since felt
   by him. He was also afflicted with rheumatism after leaving
   the army, and fears were entertained that he might sometime
   be attacked with rheumatism of the heart. He died of hem-
   orrhage of the lungs.
     Death is sad at all times, but it is doubly so in a case 
   like this. MR. CURTISS was yet a young man, fitted by his
   habits and education for a life of even greater usefulness 
   than he had attained. He had a faculty of making friends
   and retaining them. He will be missed. - The Elkhart
   Daily Observer.
   
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