Curtiss, George Robert

1870 - 1944  (74 years)

• Name	Curtiss, George Robert
  Born	22 May 1870	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Sep 1944	Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio
  Buried	6 Sep 1944	Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  Person ID	I332	theHornes Genealogy
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2003

  
  

  Father	Curtiss, George Edward,   b. 26 May 1831, Geneseo, Livingston Co., New York ,   d. 26 Dec 1907, Kalamazoo, Michigan  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Tompkins, Lydia Cornelia,   b. 27 Jul 1834, Wayne County, New York ,   d. 29 Jan 1912, Kalamazoo, Michigan  (Age 77 years)
  Married	27 Sep 1854	Webster, Monroe Co., New York
  Family ID	F153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bunnell, Inez Jean,   b. 12 Dec 1874, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., Michigan ,   d. 28 Mar 1958, Cleveland, Ohio  (Age 83 years)
  Married	6 Oct 1896	Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
  Notes	George Curtiss was connected with the State Insurance Department in Lansing, Michigan, when he met my grandmother, who was a stenographer in one of the Capital offices. They were married in Grand Rapids, where her parents lived.
  Children	1. CURTISS, Dorothy Bunnell,   b. 26 Jul 1897, Lansing, Clinton Co., Michigan ,   d. 17 Mar 1994, Michigan City, Indiana  (Age 96 years)   2. CURTISS, George Bunnell,   b. 14 Mar 1907, South Haven, VanBuren Co., Michigan ,   d. 8 Jun 1965, Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio  (Age 58 years)   3. CURTISS, Kathryn Louise,   b. 11 Feb 1900, Grand Rapids, Michigan ,   d. 18 Dec 1971, Everett, Snohomish Co., Washington  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2019
  Family ID	F217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESI PLAC 3066 Livingston Road, Apt 4, Shaker Heights, OH My grandfather, George Robert Curtiss, along with his nephew, Jay Randolph Monroe, founded the Monroe Calculating Machine Company in 1913 -- the first machine to add, subtract, multiply and divide. He was born late in the life of his parents, was never strong, and was a little spoiled by his parents. As I remember my grandfather, he was tall, very thin (118) and usually sternly dignified, but loved a good joke and loved to tease. He was distinguished-looking with a mustache and a pointed little well-trimmed goatee (I heard that he wore it to hide a dimple in his chin.) His word was "law" and yet he was kind and successful in the work he did. He had a beautiful baritone singing voice. At Olivet College (1886-1893) he sang in a quartette (picture in my "paper" about his life). EARLY MICHIGAN & U.S. Ulysses Grant was President when my grandfather was born (22 May 1870) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. About that time (1876) America was celebrating its hundredth birthday. It had become the world's greatest single source of food and one of the leading industrial powers in the world. No other country could boast such growth or progress in the material conditions of life. Michigan was already a State, with boundary same as today. In 1787, Michigan became part of the Northwest Territory (with passage of the Northwest Ordinance by the new U.S. Congress). It included what are now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois & Wisconsin. In 1805, the Michigan Territory was carved out of the Indiana Territory. Michigan became a State in 1837. Detroit was the capital until 1847, when the state government was moved to Lansing. Michigan has such fertile land, that early settlers flocked to Michigan for farming (fruit trees). The Governor from 1869-1872 was Henry P. Baldwin; and from 1873-1876 was John J. Bagley.