Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Curtis, Paul A. July 27, 1889 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. III  pg.173  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

	CURTIS, PAUL A., proprietor of Henson Motor Sales Company of Tampa, is 
a veteran in the automobile industry, and widely known as an expert in every 
detail of motor mechanics.  He is a very capable business man and salesman as 
well.
	Mr. CURTIS was born at Hudson, North Carolina, July 27, 1889, son of 
JOHN and ELLEN E. (CHEEKE) CURTIS, natives of the same state.  He was the 
fourth in their family of eight children.  He was five years of age when his 
parents moved to Toccoa, Georgia, and when he was about nine, they established 
their home in Atlanta.  PAUL A. CURTIS was reared and educated in Atlanta, and 
at the age of eighteen enlisted in the navy and served four years.  After his 
honorable discharge he returned to Atlanta, and for a short time had an 
experience in the automobile business there.  In 1915 he came to Lakeland, 
Florida, and for one year operated the Dixie Highway Garage and for another 
year operated the Kentucky Automobile Shop on his own account.  During a 
portion of the World war he was in the merchant-marine stationed at Florida.  
In November, 1918, on returning to Lakeland he engaged in the general 
automobile repair business as member of the firm Mehaig-Curtis-Mehaig.  In 
May, 1919, the members of this firm bought the Dixie Highway Garage.  In 
October, 1920, Mr. CURTIS sold his business at Lakeland, and for a year or 
more, operated a place on Lake Hollingsworth as a chicken and poultry farm.  
February 1, 1922, he bought the Henson Motor Sales Company at Tampa, and now 
operates a high class general repair and accessory shop and is sales and 
distributing agent in this territory for the Henson-Dixie car, manufactured at 
Atlanta.  He has a fine storeroom 60 by 75 feet at the corner of Seventh and 
Franklin streets.


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