Curtis, Henry B. (Henry Barnes), 1799-1885
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Lawyer, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Henry B. Curtis was Samuel's older brother, an attorney in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Belinda Buckingham was Samuel's wife. Henry Zarah Curtis and Samuel S. Curtis were Samuel's sons, and were Surveyors and land agents in Council Bluffs. Henry Zarah was killed in 1863.
Samuel Curtis fought in the Mexican War, then became city engineer of St. Louis in 1850, where he remained for three years. He became chief engineer of the Philadelphia, Fort Wayne & Platte Valley Railroad which was proposed as a link in the Central Railroad in 1853, and left in 1855 when it failed to start a a private practice in Keokuk from 1855-1861. Curtis became a U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1857-1861, became Colonel of the 2nd Iowa Infantry, Commanded the Union army in the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 1862,was given command of the department of the Missouri, then commanded the Department of Kansas, and then the Department of the Northwest. After the War he was a commissioner treating with the Indians along the Missouri River, and was serving as a member of the commission to examine and report on the Union Pacific Railroad in Iowa when he died.
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Curtis, Henry Barnes, 1799-1885
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Keokuk (Iowa)
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