C. L. Curtis
C. L. Curtis, painter and paper-hanger, Washington, was born July 15, 1846, and is a son of Charles and Rachel Curtis, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio about the year 1800. They had a family of four children, two sons and two daughters. Our subject was married, in 1874, to Miss S. J. Kern, daughter of Jeremiah Kern, of Franklin County. They have one child, John Clyde.
Our subject enlisted in Compauy A, 3d O. V. L, in 1861, when only fifteen years of age, and remained with it a few weeks, when he was wounded in the hand, on the 6th of April, 1862, at Pittsburgh Landing, and went home on a furlough. When his hand got well he returned to his regiment, and remained until the close of the war. He then went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked at his trade for about six years, when he came to Washington, where he is now permanently located with a partner, doing business under the firm name of Curtis & Barrett. They are both firstclass workmen, and command a large share of the work in the county. He received his education in Pittsburgh, graduated at Duff''s Commercial College, and his life was principally spent in the coal city.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County