Curtis, Thomas F, Dd

Curtis, Thomas F., D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born in England in 1816. He was educated in the South Carolina University, and pursued his theological studies under the direction of his father, the Reverend Thomas Curtis, D.D. After several years' pastorate over a church near Boston, he was called to a professorship in Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1865. In 1867 he took up his residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died in 1872. Dr. Curtis published a volume on Inspiration. He is also author of a work on Communion, and another entitled Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years. (J.C.S.)