Curtis, Joseph Wait

Curtis, Joseph Wait a Congregational minister, was born in Vermont. He graduated from Dartinouth College in 1811; was ordained, July 5, 1816, pastor at North Yarmouth, Maine; preached at Warren, Ohio, from 1820 to 1832; was chaplain of Vermont penitentiary for two years; missionary in Canada in 1835; without a charge in Vermont the next year; and pastor at Hadley, Massachusetts, from 1836 until his death, March 16, 1857. See Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, page 28.