ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

According to 
           THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO
       WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
          OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MENT
          Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

  "CARLOS EUGENE CURTISS ... was born in Genesee County, New York, on
  the first day of June 1825, and is a son of Ichabod and Selima Camp Curtiss,
  originally of Middletown, Connecticut, but who removed to Ohio in 1833, and are
  now deceased, the father January 17, 1867, and the mother October 9, 1868.
   The education of Mr. Curtiss was acquired at the schools of Kingsville
  Township, and his occupation has been that of farming, though in the year 1852
  he caught the "gold fever", and the subsequent five years of his life were passed
  in the gold bearing districts of California, - a portion of time in the mines.  He
  was also for a time a partner in a store there, but acquired the greater portion of
  his wealth in hay speculations in the before-mentioned State.  Returning to Ohio,
  he was elected to the office of superintendent of the county infirmary in 1860,
  and the fact of his having served in that capacity for eleven years seems pretty
  conclusive evidence that he is the "right man in the right place".  He was elected
  trustee of Kingsville Township in the year 1870, and has served five years in that
  position.  On the 5th day of January, 1859, Mr. Curtiss was united in marriage to
  Miss Julia Elba, daughter of Allen W. and Betsey Wilder Niles, of Kingsville
  Township, from whom have been born to him the following children:  Mary E., the
  date of whose birth occurred September 5, 1860; Jalle N., born November 2,
  1869; and Albert D., the baby, who was born on the 12th day of March, 1871.

  Mr. Curtiss is a firm adherent to the principles inculcated by the Republican
  Party.  He is kind and considerate towards those who are under his supervision
  and is looked upon by them as a superior representative of the genus homo."