Curtis, Harvey, Dd

Curtis, Harvey, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Adams, N.Y., May 30, 1806. He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1831; studied the next year at Princeton Theological Seminary; was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Brandon, Vermont, February 18, 1836; in 1843 accepted a call from a Presbyterian Church in Madison, Indiana, and remained there eight years. In 1852 he was called to the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago; in 1858 was elected to the presidency of Knox College, Illinois, and died at Galesburg, September 18, 1862. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1863, page 292; Genesis Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 81.