The Descendants of John Heywood of Concord, Massachusetts

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Samuel Bridgham Curtis, third son of George Curtis, and eldest child of his second wife, Julia B. (Bridgham) Curtis, was born December 24, 1834, in Providence, and died at West New Brighton, July 29, 1887. He is buried in the North burying ground at Providence. He was educated at a private school in New York and later entered the New York National Bank of Commerce, of which his father, George Curtis, was then cashier. He was later employed with his father's banking firm of Curtis, Beals & Fearing, and when that firm was dissolved and the Continental National Bank of New York was formed with his father as president, the son obtained a position in this bank as check clerk, and later third teller. He resigned from this bank in 1858, and became assistant cashier in the National Bank of Commerce. On March 26, 1860, he joined Company K, Seventh New York Militia, and in 1861, when the War of the Rebellion broke out, he resigned his position in order to go to the front, accompanying his regiment on its famous trip to Washington on the "19th of April." Later returned to New York, he occupied a position in the cashier's department of the New York Customs House, which he retained until August 7, 1885, when he was forced by illness to retire from active business. On December 5, 1867, he married in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Louise Kreider Fuller, daughter of Pliny B. Fuller, of Providence, born in New York, March 27, 1844. Children: 1. Jane Bridgham, born September 7, 1868; married Robert Coleman Child, of Washington. 2. William Fuller, born February 25, 1873, unamrried; artist; studied art with Julius Rolshoven and at the Julian Academy at Paris under Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert Fleury. Awarded third prize Society Washington Artists, 1902; first prize Washington Water Colour Club, 1803; silver medal Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904.