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H. W. Curtiss

American politician (1824–1902)

Field	Value
name	Harvey Willard Curtiss
image	Harvey Willard Curtis 1.jpg
order	13th
office	Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
governor	Thomas L. Young
term_start	March 2, 1877
term_end	January 14, 1878
preceded	Thomas L. Young
succeeded	Jabez W. Fitch
state_senate2	Ohio
district2	25th
term_start2	January 5, 1874
term_end2	January 4, 1880
preceded2	Benjamin R. Bevis
Allen T. Brinsmade
succeeded2	Peter Hitchcock
Thomas J. Carson
alongside2	William Bingham (1874-75)
J. C. Schenck (1876-77)
state_house3	Ohio
district3	Cuyahoga County
term_start3	January 3, 1870
term_end3	January 4, 1874
party	Republican
birth_date
birth_place	Charlestown Township, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Chagrin Falls, Ohio, U.S.
spouse	Olive B. Rood
children	four
alma_mater	Grand River Institute
Western College of Homeopathy, Cleveland
signature	Signature of H. W. Curtiss.png

Allen T. Brinsmade Thomas J. Carson J. C. Schenck (1876-77) Western College of Homeopathy, Cleveland

Harvey Willard Curtiss (February 22, 1824 – April 30, 1902) was a Republican legislator from the U.S. state of Ohio who, as the president of the Ohio Senate, became the 13th lieutenant governor of Ohio 1877–1878 when the governor resigned, and the previous lieutenant governor succeeded to the governorship.{{cite web

Biography

Harvey Willard Curtiss was born at Charlestown Township, Portage County, Ohio February 22, 1824, or perhaps 1823. He graduated from the Grand River Institute, and began study of medicine in 1849. He graduated from the Cleveland Medical College, or Western College of Homeopathy in 1851, and located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to practice medicine for a short time before locating in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where lived the rest of his life. H. W. Curtiss married Olive B. Rood of Charlestown in 1845.

Career

Curtiss was an abolitionist, and his home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. He was among the first in Cuyahoga County, Ohio to join the newly formed Republican Party. He was on the City Council of Chagrin Falls, and was mayor from 1861 to 1865. Curtiss was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1869 and 1871, and to the Ohio State Senate in 1873, 1875 and 1877. In the spring of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes resigned as Governor of Ohio to become President of the United States. Lieutenant Governor of Ohio Thomas L. Young became governor, and Curtiss, as President pro tem of the Senate, became acting lieutenant governor. Curtiss was also a school board member for eighteen years, and was president of the Western Reserve Pioneer Association for twenty years. After he retired from politics, he practiced medicine until about 1900.

Death

Curtiss died at Chagrin Falls on April 30, 1902. His wife, Olive, survived him with three children. Another son died at age thirteen.

References

[[#annalsettler. Annals of Cuyahoga County]] : 512
[[#homeo. Proceedings Homeopathic]] : 24-26
[[#portrait. Brennan 1880]] : 420
[[#bio60. Crabb 1872]] : 67-68

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