Genesee-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Curtis, Daniel D. 1837 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DANIEL D. CURTIS, who was born in Addison Township, Oakland County, Mich.,
October 27, 1837, is a son of Zimri Curtis, a Vermonter, who came to Michigan in
1834, making his home in Addison Township, where he took up Government land, and
cleared and improved the farm making his home for years in a log house. He died
in 1873at the age of sixty-seven years, and both he and his good wife, Amanda
Lockwood, were earnest and efficient members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Curtis died in 1883 leaving six children, all of whom still survive.

  The subject of this sketch studied in the log school house and remained upon
the old homestead until he reached the age of twenty-one. He then undertook
working the farm on shares until 1861, when he removed to Fenton Township,
Genesee County, where he purchased his present property, of which about seventy
acres had been cleared, and where he has now placed various substantial
improvements.

  Mr. Curtis was married in 1861 to Maria Schanck a native of Michigan, and to
them were born five children: Edgar J. is now married and is in the mercantile
business in Linden; Carrie is the wife of Michael McCue, a farmer of Fenton
Township; while Ada, Heber and Charles are still beneath the parental roof. To
all have been granted by their parents excellent opportunities for gaining a
good education and these opportunities have been eagerly improved.

  The early political faith of Mr. Curtis was in accordance with the doctrines
of the Democratic party, but of late years he has espoused the cause of
Prohibition. With his good wife he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Linden, and in that body he is Steward and Class-leader as well as Trustee.
His farm comprises one hundred and sixty-eight acres on sections 29 and 30, and
he has cleared and improved a great deal of it himself. His attractive and
capacious home is well built and abundantly fitted up with conveniences. He
raises all kinds of stock and excellent crops, and his success is a lesson of
encouragement to all young men.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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