John Curtis Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Hazel Green, Biographical Sketches, Page 1008

JOHN CURTIS, Sec. 11, P.O. Fairview; owns 260 acres of land, valued at $50 per 
acre; born in Cornwall, England, in 1832; came to America in 1847, and located 
in Hazel Green; settled on his present farm in 1876.  In 1859, he married Mary 
Ann Lukey; she also was born in Cornwall, England; they have eleven children – 
Francis, William, Thomas, Mary, Emma, James, Isabella, Olive, Charles, Walter 
and Susan Ann.