Biography of Warren Curtis
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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WARREN CURTIS. WARREN CURTIS was born in Passaic, N. J., October 19, 1837, a son of Warren Curtis, an extensive paper manufacturer
of that place. Mr. Curtis was educated at Newark, N. J., and took a course in civil engineering at Delaware College,
when a young man, and went west and was engaged in the paper manufacture, also surveying. In May, 1871, he came
to Corinth and took charge of the Hudson River Pulp & Paper Co., as general manager and has since held that
office, also for the past twelve years has been treasurer as well as general manager of the company. On the organization
of the International Paper Co., Mr. Curtis was elected a director and manager of the, department of construction
and maintenance of that company.
Politically Mr. Curtis is independent; he served two terms on the board of supervisors of Saratoga county, and
was the first president of the union school board; also the first president of the village of Corinth; he was supervisor
two terms and was once nominated by the Democratic party for Congress, but the district being largely Republican,
he was defeated.
Mr. Curtis married Miss M. A. Parmenter, and five children have been born to them: Warren, jr., a graduate of the
Polytechnic Institute of Troy, is now serving his second term as president of the village and is civil engineer
for the Hudson River Pulp & Paper Company; Allen, a student at Cornell; Harry, Carita and Marguerite.
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