Col. Carlton B. Curtis and Sarah Ann Sargent

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Husband Col. Carlton B. Curtis ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 Dec 1811 - Madison Co, NY 3
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           Died: 17 Mar 1883 or 1885 - Erie, Erie Co, PA 3 4
         Buried:  - Warren, Warren Co, PA

       Marriage: 1835 3

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Wife Sarah Ann Sargent ³

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         Father: Dr. Henry Sargent (1790-1851) 5
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Children

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1 F Mattie L. Curtis ⁶

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         Spouse: Lysander Sterrett Norton (1845-      ) 6 7
           Marr: 12 Jun 1873 6

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Carlton B. Curtis

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Having received an academic education, his talents and taste led him to select the legal profession, and he entered the office of the late Judge Mullet, of New York. Soon after, he moved to Pennsylvania, and there continued his studies with D. C. Barrett, of Erie, until his admission to the bar. In 1834, he settled in Warren, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the practice of his profession. In some features of legal knowledge he was almost without superiors, while his reading was so extensive and so carefully conducted that few jurists had a more profound knowledge of the general law. In 1836, then but twenty-five years of age, he was sent to the Legislature, and in 1837, also 1838, he was re-elected to the same position. During his term of service he warmly espoused the cause of common schools. Upon leaving the Legislature, he resumed the practice of his profession, and was thus occupied until 1850, when he was elected to Congress on the Democratic ticket. Upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise Act, in 1855, he changed his allegiance to his former party, and became a champion of Republican principles. In 1861, when the President issued his call for troops, he disregarded his private interests, and directed his energies to the recruiting of soldiers for the Union. His efforts created the 58th Regt. of Penn. Vols., over which organization he was appointed Colonel. The regiment was soon ordered to the front, and did efficient service in North Carolina for a lengthy period. On account of ill-health, in 1863 Mr. Curtis resigned and returned home. Regaining his health after a time, he resumed practice at the bar with great success and profit. In 1872, he was unanimously nominated and elected to the Forty-third Congress, where he made an honorable record, and served with distinction as a member of the Committee on Territories and war expenditures. He was renominated for the Forty-fourth Congress in the "tidal wave" year of 1874, but was defeated by Dr. A. G. Egbert, by a majority of eleven on a total vote of 20,765. He was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Erie, and one of the chief organizers and builders of the Dunkirk & Venango Railroad, and in all public enterprises he was ready to co-operate.
His remains were interred in the family lot at Warren, Penn. [HEC 1884, 883]

"Carlton B. Curtis came to Warren as a young attorney from Chautauqua county, N. Y., in the spring of 1834. He came without prestige or friends, dependent on his own resources alone for success, and he succeeded. He was not naturally methodical or painstaking. Whatever he did he did well, without much regard to the manner of its doing. Naturally indolent, he took the shortest cut to his objective point. His legal documents were usually short, informal, and often slovenly, but clearly to the point. His mind was incisive and analytical. His conclusions were generally logical and correct; but they were the product of his instinct or good common sense, rather than of his ratiocination. His memory was good and his judgment first-rate; but the want of a thorough collegiate education had left his mind undisciplined in the close process of logical reasoning. Yet as a practitioner he was successful and popular. Personally he possessed many amiable qualities. In his domestic relations he was kind and indulgent even to excess. In his social intercourse he was interesting, agreeable, and facetious even to waggery sometimes. He had no malice in his composition, and never indulged in revenge or retaliation. He represented this [Warren] county in the Legislature during the sessions of 1837-38, and in Congress in the years 1851-52 and 1873-74. He was an earnest and honest politician, and always took an active part in all political campaigns. He enlisted in the service of his country during the late "unpleasantness," as he termed it, and became colonel of the Fifty-eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, and resigned in the summer of 1863. Within the next year or two he removed from Warren to Erie, where he continued to reside and practice his profession until he died, in 1885. The life and history of Colonel Curtis was so identified with the history of Warren county, for more than thirty years, as to justify a somewhat prolonged obituary notice." [HWC 1887, 317]

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Ann Sargent

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from Warren, Warren Co, PA

1 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 883, 934.

2 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 317.

3 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 883.

4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 318.

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 339.

6 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 934.

7 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 19.