Edwin Burr Curtiss
Edwin Burr Curtiss (July 14, 1852 - March 30, 1928), was an attorney, bookseller, and a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.[1][2][3]
Biography
He was born on July 14, 1852, and he had a younger brother, Julian Wheeler Curtiss. Edwin graduated from Columbia University.[4] In 1878 he formed the firm of Cunningham, Curtiss & Welsh of San Francisco, wholesale stationers and booksellers, blank book manufacturers, printers, and lithographers. (Curtiss was based primarily in New York City.)[5] In 1892, together with his brother, Julian Wheeler Curtiss, and others, he started the Fairfield County Golf Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.[6][7]
By 1900 and at least through 1908, he was a vice president of the American Booksellers Association.[8][9] He retired from the law in 1908 and was a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.
He was married to Virginia Henry.[3] Edwin Burr Curtiss died on March 30, 1928.[2] His widow went on to marry August Heckscher.[1]
Curtiss commissioned the architects Carrère and Hastings, who had also designed the original clubhouse for the Greenwich Country Club, to build him a house on North Street in Greenwich, Connecticut.[10]
References
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