Curtiss, Claudius G

Curtiss, Claudius G.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Niagara County, N.Y., January 16, 1823. He was converted in his twentieth year, and immediately joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1854 he removed to Markham, Canada, where he was licensed to preach by the Canada Wesleyan Church. In 1860 he united with the Evangelical Association, was ordained, and appointed to Seneca charge. In 1867 he returned to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was received as a member of the East Genesee Conference. He took a supernumerary relation in 1881, and retired to his home in Hammondsport, where he died, August 18, 1882. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1882. page 320.