CHARLES W. CURTIS was born in Fulton County, Illinois, on March 15, 1841. He was married to Emeline Stout of Fulton County in 1876. They had four children - Lydia, Margaret, Hattie, and Ernest. The family moved to Cass County in 1880 to live on a farm which had been bought from Charles Curtis' father, L. W. Curtis, in 1869. The father had passed away in 1869 and had been a physician in Illinois. Within a few years, Charles Curtis owned a 320-acre farm in Sections 34 and 35 of Brighton Township, about two-and-a-half miles southeast of Marne.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pp. 25-26. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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