Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Curtis, Theo C. 1844 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

THEO C. CURTIS.

   If we could but bring humanity to deal with genealogy as it deals with other
subjects, how much more thorough would be our records. It is true that
biographers are generally interested more or less in family genealogies, but it
is the individual members and descendants who derive the actual benefit
therefrom. The Curtis family, from whom the subject of this sketch has
descended, is a fine old pioneer family of Ohio, and is of Irish lineage on the
maternal side.

   Theo C. Curtis, retired farmer, Flora, Carroll county, was born August 29,
1844, in Burlington township, and is a son of Jesse and Jane V. (Watt) Curtis.
He was nine years old when he came to Carrollton township, and all his early
youth was spent at farm work, and his education was obtained by attending the
public schools during the winter months, after which he took a course in a
business college at Lafayette, Indiana. In selecting his life work, Mr. Curtis
decided upon agriculture, which he has followed until very recently, when he
retired from an active business life. He originally had eighty acres of land, to
which he has continued to add until he now owns one hundred acres, all in a fine
state of cultivation. Mr. Curtis was originally a Republican, but now gives his
support to the Prohibition party. Religiously, both Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are
members of the Presbyterian church at Wheeling, Indiana.

   Jesse Curtis, father of our subject, was born in Ohio, and his wife, Jane V.
(Watt) Curtis, was a native of Ireland, and came with her parents to America
when eight years old. They settled in Ohio, where she grew to womanhood and was
married. Mr. Curtis and his wife settled in Burlington township, Carroll county,
and about 1858, they moved to Carrollton township, on the Michigan road, about
five miles north of Burlington township, spending the remainder of their lives
there. He at first owned eighty-acres, and afterward purchased eighty acres more
in Burlington township, which he sold, and purchased a half section in
Carrollton township, one hundred acres of which is now owned by Theo C. Mr.
Curtis was a Republican, and in religion he belonged to the Presbyterian church.
Jesse and Jane W. (Watt) Curtis were the parents of four children, William,
deceased; Theo C, Jerome and Rebecca, all of whom are dead but Theo C. By his
first wife, Mr. Curtis had two children.

   Theo C. Curtis was united in marriage, December 20, 1865, to Mary J. Wilson,
who was born June 6, 1845, in Decatur county, Indiana, and came with her parents
to Howard county in 1847, where she lived on a farm until she was married,
receiving her education at the district schools. To Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were
born two children, Martha Esta, a graduate of the public schools, who became a
teacher in the public schools of the county, after which she became the wife of
George O. Billings, and lives in Howard county, Indiana; they have one child,
Mabel B. Bertha Curtis was married to Harrison W. Barbee, a merchant of
Wheeling, Indiana. She is an active member of the Presbyterian church, and her
sister, Martha Esta takes an active part in the Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs.
Barbee had one son, Ockle, who was reared in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis,
living there from the time he was three months old until he was twenty-four
years of age. He graduated from the public schools at Flora, and is also a
graduate of the Flora high school, and now has entire charge of the farm for Theo
C.

   Mr. Curtis has lived an upright life, and has always believed in the
principles of "live and let live," and is enjoying a peaceful, quiet life, such
as can only come from proper dealing with brother men.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

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