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representative from Pensylvania to the forty-seventh, forty -eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. He died Oct. 6, 1894, in Bellefonte, Pa. Curtin, Austin, soldier, was born March 19, 1835, near Bellafonte, Pa. He vi^as educated at the Lewisburg and Milnwood academies. At the outbreak of the civil war he raised a company; was on the staflfs of Generals Welch, Ferrero and Burnside; and was appointed lieutenant-colonel. Since 1884 he has been a staff officer Pennsylvania national guard; and in 1885 was department commander grand army of the republic. Curtin, Jeremiah, ethnologist, author, was
born
in
1840 in Milwaukee, Wis.
He was
actively connected with the Bureau of Ethnology Smithsonian institute in 1883-91; and from then studied the languages of the American Indians; and made valuable researches. He was the author of Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland; Hero Tales of Ireland; Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World, collected from Oral Tradition in South Munster; Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. His transla-
tions include Tales of Three Centuries, from the Russian of Zagoskin; and The Romances of Sienkiewicz, from the Polish. He died Dec. 14, 1906, in Boston, Mass. Curtin, John Irwin, soldier, was bom in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was captain in the forty-fifth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; and in 1864 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Curtin, Roland Gideon, physician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in Bellefonte, Pa. In 1875-95 he was lecturer on physical diagnosis at the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Influenza. Curtis, Alfred Allen, clergyman, bishop, was born July 4, 1831, in Somerset county, Md. He was a priest in the Roman catholic church. In 1886-97 he was Roman catholio bishop of Wilmington, Del. ; and in 1898 was appointed vicar-general of Baltimore. He died July. 11, 1908, in Baltimore, Md. Curtis, Alva, physician, lecturer, was bom June 3, 1797, in Columbia, N.H. He received a thorough education in the public schools of
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New Hampshire
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graduated in medicine. For many years he practiced his profession in Ohio; and was a noted writer on medical
subjects.
He
lec-
tured in the Botanic medical college of Ohio; and in other institutions. In 1837-52 he was editor of the Botanico-Medical Recorder; was editor of the Journal of Education; and also editor of Physiological and Medical Reforms. He was the author of Medical Discussions; Lectures on Midwifery; Theory and Practice of Med-
