Curtis, Orrin

Born: 1822-XX-XX New York

Died: 1869-11-23 Saint Paul, Minnesota

Curtis married Phebe Moore, and they settled in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1850, he was a carpenter and joiner in Bloomington. In the 1850s, the family moved to Saint Anthony, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, where Curtis was the mayor of the town from 1858-1860, and was on the board of school directors. In 1860, Curtis was a real estate agent in Saint Anthony, where he owned $10,000 in real property, with a personal estate of $1,500.

Gravestone, Oakland Cemetery, Saint Paul, MN; Stafford C. Cleveland, History and Directory of Yates County, [New York] (Penn Yan, NY: S. C. Cleveland, 1873), 1:517; Edward D, Neill, History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis (Minneapolis: North Star, 1881), 381, 437; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), McLean County, IL, 1; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Hennepin County, MN, 71.