F. R. CURTIS
                         Thompson, LA.
                      Parish of Calcasieu


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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 145.

Contributed by Margaret Moore                         

 F. R. Curtis is a native of South Carolina, born July 21 1846. 
He is the son of Dr. Franklin and Maria Boyd (Dyatt) Curtis, 
natives of South Carolina and Pennsylvania, respectively. 
Dr. Curtis was a prominent physician and planter. He married 
in Philadelphia and subsequently removed to South Carolina, 
and, later, in 1869, to St. James parish, Louisiana, where 
he resided until his death in 1888. His wife died in 1876. 
Both were strict members of the Presbyterian church. Dr. 
Curtis and wife were the parents of four children, two of 
whom are living, viz: Maria L, wife of Joseph Wildeson,
and the subject of this sketch.
F. R. Curtis began life for himself at the early age of sixteen
years. He was first engaged with Mitchell, Bury & Tansy, of St.
Louis, in buying grain. He was engaged with them for about
eighteen months when, in 1869, he removed to this parish, and in
conjunction with his father engaged in sugar planting.
Subsequently he engaged in the timber business, and in this he
has been principally engaged since. He now owns two hundred and
sixty acres of good land in Calcasieu parish; he also has the 
contract for carrying the mail from Iowa station to Thompson 
post-office.  Mr. Curtis has never married. He is a gentleman 
of fine business qualifications.