Curtis, Alfred B.

CURTIS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman
Date: 7/24/2007 at 22:28:17

Alfred B. Curtis

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.84, Center Twp.)
Alfred B. Curtis, farming, P. O. Oakland, was born in Plainfield, Essex Co., N. J. October 30, 1847. He is the son of Jonathan and Hannah (Angleman) Curtis, both natives of Plainfield, N. J. His father was a farmer, and moved to Tazewell County, Ill., about 1857. He then moved to Logan County, of the same State, about 1860, where he died August 23, 1866. The mother of our subject was born August 2, 1822, and is still living in Logan County, Ill. Our subject lived at home up to the date of his marriage, which occurred in Galva, Henry Co., Ill, in 1874, when he married Sarah E. Frazee, born in the same place as our subject, November 10, 1844. She is the daughter of John W. and Mary (Rogers) Frazee, both natives of Essex County, M. J.; he born in 1811, she, born in 1814, and is still living in Galva, Henry Co., Ill. The parents left New Jersey in 1856, and came to Peoria County, Ill. After his marriage, our subject farmed in Logn County, Ill, until he left for this State February 17, 1880, locating in Shelby County. He moved to Center Township , this county, in the spring of 1882, where he puchased eighty acres of land in Section 4, Town 75, Range 39. He has two children - Oscar Whitfield, born February 27, 1877, and George Eugene, born June 25, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are members of the M. E. Church. he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is a Republican.