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

  1. 1 2 "Heckscher, 81, Weds Mrs. V. H. Curtiss, 55. Philanthropist Quietly Married to Widow of E. B. Curtiss at Croton Last Wednesday. Bride, a Close Friend of His First Wife, Has Been Associated With Him in Child Welfare Work. Wed in Parsonage. Born in Hamburg in 1848". The New York Times. July 8, 1930. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
  2. 1 2 "Edwin Burr Curtiss". The New York Times. March 31, 1928. Edwin Burr Curtiss, brother of Julian Wheeler Curtiss of ... He was a director of A. G. Spalding Brothers from the time the corporation ...
  3. 1 2 "Mrs. A. Heckscher, Philanthropist, 66. Widow of Real Estate Man Dies in Penthouse Home in Office Building". The New York Times. July 11, 1941. Retrieved 2009-11-27. ... Edwin Burr Curtiss, former president of A. G. Spalding Bros.
  4. ↑ "Officers and graduates of Columbia college". Columbia University. 1894. Retrieved 2009-11-27. Edwin Burr Curtiss ...
  5. ↑ "The Industries of San Francisco". 1884.
  6. ↑ "Fairfield County Golf Club". The Connecticut magazine. 1900. Retrieved 2009-11-27. The Fairfield County Golf Club at Greenwich is one of the best known in the state and it contains some excellent golfers. The incorporators of the club are Julian W. Curtiss, John H. Boswell, James McCutcheon, Edward K. ... Edwin B. Curtiss ...
  7. ↑ In 1909 the club was renamed "Greenwich Country Club". Website of the Greenwich Country Club
  8. ↑ American Booksellers Association Almanac. 1950. Edwin B. Curtiss of San Francisco, second vice-president
  9. ↑ The publishers weekly. 1908. Edwin B. Curtiss, second vice-president ... San Francisco
  10. ↑ "The Work of Carrère and Hastings," in Architectural Record (1910).
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