son of Maj Edward Curtis &
Augusta Lawler (Stacey) Curtis
who were m. 16 Nov 1864
at Chester, Delaware Co., Penn.
m. Josephine Denver Jones
b. 3 Aug 1876 Indiana
d. 6 May 1963 San Diego, Cal.
1930 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 59, b. in c.1871 in Penn., aged 46 at first marriage, father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., author fiction
Josephine D aged 53, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, aged 42 at first marriage, both parents b. in Ohio
1920 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 49, b. in c.1871 in Penn., father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., bee keeper bee farm
Josephine D aged 43, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, both parents b. in Ohio
1914 Harvard alumni directory
resident of Foster, San Diego Co., CA
George DeClyver Curtis, son of Curtis '59, naturally "wanted the best." Thinks "lack of architectural beauty" the only defect there worth mentioning. Fond recollections of "rowing on the river; watching football games and Pudding shows; social evenings with friends; reading the great authors; expansion of mind." The last item probably accounts for his remark that he has "nothing new since last report (except that I am getting bald.)" Is busy as assistant librarian of the New York Public Library, Lenox Branch, with "various" side interests. In debates on matrimony has successfully supported the negative up to date.
[published 1903, Harvard University Class of 1893, Report issue 3]
RAMONA NOTABLE GEORGE CURTIS DIES
George De Clyver Curtis, 85 [sic - would be aged 95; census records and author info state b. 1870/1], a Ramona homesteader in 1910 and son of the physician who removed John Wilkes Booth's bullet from President Lincoln's brain, died yesterday in El Cajon.
came West in 1907, a refugee from city life in New York where he worked in the library; three years later the Harvard University graduate, class of 1893 and member of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club, was raising livestock and poultry and keeping bees in Ramona; brought his bride, Josephine Denver Jones, in 1917 to the 10 acres of brush-covered homesteaded federal reserve property about a mile up the canyon from San Vincente River, they lived for three years in a tent-house until a proper house was built; Curtis was a writer, in 1948 Houghton Mifflin and Co. published his, "Bees' Ways," a charming account of the life of a bee keeper which was hailed as a minor classic; his early New England ancestors included a Supreme Court chief justice and a congressman, his uncle George William Curtis was editor of Harper's Weekly; was a member of Company K New York Seventh Regiment of National Guard; a widower, he is survived by two nephews; memorial services in El Cajon Mortuary Chapel; will be inurned at Nuevo Memory Gardens, Ramona, not far from the Mussey Grade Road house where he lived for more than 50 years.
[published Thursday, August 18, 1966, San Diego Union]
Augusta Lawler (Stacey) Curtis
who were m. 16 Nov 1864
at Chester, Delaware Co., Penn.
m. Josephine Denver Jones
b. 3 Aug 1876 Indiana
d. 6 May 1963 San Diego, Cal.
1930 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 59, b. in c.1871 in Penn., aged 46 at first marriage, father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., author fiction
Josephine D aged 53, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, aged 42 at first marriage, both parents b. in Ohio
1920 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 49, b. in c.1871 in Penn., father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., bee keeper bee farm
Josephine D aged 43, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, both parents b. in Ohio
1914 Harvard alumni directory
resident of Foster, San Diego Co., CA
George DeClyver Curtis, son of Curtis '59, naturally "wanted the best." Thinks "lack of architectural beauty" the only defect there worth mentioning. Fond recollections of "rowing on the river; watching football games and Pudding shows; social evenings with friends; reading the great authors; expansion of mind." The last item probably accounts for his remark that he has "nothing new since last report (except that I am getting bald.)" Is busy as assistant librarian of the New York Public Library, Lenox Branch, with "various" side interests. In debates on matrimony has successfully supported the negative up to date.
[published 1903, Harvard University Class of 1893, Report issue 3]
RAMONA NOTABLE GEORGE CURTIS DIES
George De Clyver Curtis, 85 [sic - would be aged 95; census records and author info state b. 1870/1], a Ramona homesteader in 1910 and son of the physician who removed John Wilkes Booth's bullet from President Lincoln's brain, died yesterday in El Cajon.
came West in 1907, a refugee from city life in New York where he worked in the library; three years later the Harvard University graduate, class of 1893 and member of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club, was raising livestock and poultry and keeping bees in Ramona; brought his bride, Josephine Denver Jones, in 1917 to the 10 acres of brush-covered homesteaded federal reserve property about a mile up the canyon from San Vincente River, they lived for three years in a tent-house until a proper house was built; Curtis was a writer, in 1948 Houghton Mifflin and Co. published his, "Bees' Ways," a charming account of the life of a bee keeper which was hailed as a minor classic; his early New England ancestors included a Supreme Court chief justice and a congressman, his uncle George William Curtis was editor of Harper's Weekly; was a member of Company K New York Seventh Regiment of National Guard; a widower, he is survived by two nephews; memorial services in El Cajon Mortuary Chapel; will be inurned at Nuevo Memory Gardens, Ramona, not far from the Mussey Grade Road house where he lived for more than 50 years.
[published Thursday, August 18, 1966, San Diego Union]
son of Maj Edward Curtis &
Augusta Lawler (Stacey) Curtis
who were m. 16 Nov 1864
at Chester, Delaware Co., Penn.
m. Josephine Denver Jones
b. 3 Aug 1876 Indiana
d. 6 May 1963 San Diego, Cal.
1930 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 59, b. in c.1871 in Penn., aged 46 at first marriage, father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., author fiction
Josephine D aged 53, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, aged 42 at first marriage, both parents b. in Ohio
1920 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 49, b. in c.1871 in Penn., father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., bee keeper bee farm
Josephine D aged 43, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, both parents b. in Ohio
1914 Harvard alumni directory
resident of Foster, San Diego Co., CA
George DeClyver Curtis, son of Curtis '59, naturally "wanted the best." Thinks "lack of architectural beauty" the only defect there worth mentioning. Fond recollections of "rowing on the river; watching football games and Pudding shows; social evenings with friends; reading the great authors; expansion of mind." The last item probably accounts for his remark that he has "nothing new since last report (except that I am getting bald.)" Is busy as assistant librarian of the New York Public Library, Lenox Branch, with "various" side interests. In debates on matrimony has successfully supported the negative up to date.
[published 1903, Harvard University Class of 1893, Report issue 3]
RAMONA NOTABLE GEORGE CURTIS DIES
George De Clyver Curtis, 85 [sic - would be aged 95; census records and author info state b. 1870/1], a Ramona homesteader in 1910 and son of the physician who removed John Wilkes Booth's bullet from President Lincoln's brain, died yesterday in El Cajon.
came West in 1907, a refugee from city life in New York where he worked in the library; three years later the Harvard University graduate, class of 1893 and member of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club, was raising livestock and poultry and keeping bees in Ramona; brought his bride, Josephine Denver Jones, in 1917 to the 10 acres of brush-covered homesteaded federal reserve property about a mile up the canyon from San Vincente River, they lived for three years in a tent-house until a proper house was built; Curtis was a writer, in 1948 Houghton Mifflin and Co. published his, "Bees' Ways," a charming account of the life of a bee keeper which was hailed as a minor classic; his early New England ancestors included a Supreme Court chief justice and a congressman, his uncle George William Curtis was editor of Harper's Weekly; was a member of Company K New York Seventh Regiment of National Guard; a widower, he is survived by two nephews; memorial services in El Cajon Mortuary Chapel; will be inurned at Nuevo Memory Gardens, Ramona, not far from the Mussey Grade Road house where he lived for more than 50 years.
[published Thursday, August 18, 1966, San Diego Union]
Augusta Lawler (Stacey) Curtis
who were m. 16 Nov 1864
at Chester, Delaware Co., Penn.
m. Josephine Denver Jones
b. 3 Aug 1876 Indiana
d. 6 May 1963 San Diego, Cal.
1930 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 59, b. in c.1871 in Penn., aged 46 at first marriage, father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., author fiction
Josephine D aged 53, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, aged 42 at first marriage, both parents b. in Ohio
1920 census El Cajon, California
George was aged 49, b. in c.1871 in Penn., father b. R.I., mother b. Penn., bee keeper bee farm
Josephine D aged 43, b. in c. 1877 in Indiana, both parents b. in Ohio
1914 Harvard alumni directory
resident of Foster, San Diego Co., CA
George DeClyver Curtis, son of Curtis '59, naturally "wanted the best." Thinks "lack of architectural beauty" the only defect there worth mentioning. Fond recollections of "rowing on the river; watching football games and Pudding shows; social evenings with friends; reading the great authors; expansion of mind." The last item probably accounts for his remark that he has "nothing new since last report (except that I am getting bald.)" Is busy as assistant librarian of the New York Public Library, Lenox Branch, with "various" side interests. In debates on matrimony has successfully supported the negative up to date.
[published 1903, Harvard University Class of 1893, Report issue 3]
RAMONA NOTABLE GEORGE CURTIS DIES
George De Clyver Curtis, 85 [sic - would be aged 95; census records and author info state b. 1870/1], a Ramona homesteader in 1910 and son of the physician who removed John Wilkes Booth's bullet from President Lincoln's brain, died yesterday in El Cajon.
came West in 1907, a refugee from city life in New York where he worked in the library; three years later the Harvard University graduate, class of 1893 and member of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club, was raising livestock and poultry and keeping bees in Ramona; brought his bride, Josephine Denver Jones, in 1917 to the 10 acres of brush-covered homesteaded federal reserve property about a mile up the canyon from San Vincente River, they lived for three years in a tent-house until a proper house was built; Curtis was a writer, in 1948 Houghton Mifflin and Co. published his, "Bees' Ways," a charming account of the life of a bee keeper which was hailed as a minor classic; his early New England ancestors included a Supreme Court chief justice and a congressman, his uncle George William Curtis was editor of Harper's Weekly; was a member of Company K New York Seventh Regiment of National Guard; a widower, he is survived by two nephews; memorial services in El Cajon Mortuary Chapel; will be inurned at Nuevo Memory Gardens, Ramona, not far from the Mussey Grade Road house where he lived for more than 50 years.
[published Thursday, August 18, 1966, San Diego Union]
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