. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. 65 and graduating asBachelor of .Arts in 1869. During the three yearsfollowing his graduation he studied law in Buffalo inthe office of Laning, Cleveland & Folsom, the sec-ond member of which afterwards became Presidentof the LTnited States. He was admitted to the Barin 1872 and immediately began practice in Buffalo,first in partnership with Hon. Lyman K. Bass, thefirm being Bass & Bissell until 1874, Bass, Clevel
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. 65 and graduating asBachelor of .Arts in 1869. During the three yearsfollowing his graduation he studied law in Buffalo inthe office of Laning, Cleveland & Folsom, the sec-ond member of which afterwards became Presidentof the LTnited States. He was admitted to the Barin 1872 and immediately began practice in Buffalo,first in partnership with Hon. Lyman K. Bass, thefirm being Bass & Bissell until 1874, Bass, Cleveland& Bissell from 1874 to 1877, and Cleveland & Bis-sell from 1877 to 1883, in which year the seniorpartner was elected Governor of the State of NewYork. Since 1897 the firm has been Bissell, Carey& Cooke. Mr. Bissell is prominent not alonethrough his extensive and varietl legal practice,but also through his public career. He has always UNIJERSITIES AND THEIRSONS 25 been a Democrat in politics, has been a delegate toseveral State Conventions, candidate for Elector-at-Large in 1888, and a delegate to the DemocraticNational Convention in 1896. He served as a. F Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Swarthmore Col-lege, 1872-75 ; established the Curtis School at Bethle-hem, Conn., 1875; removed to Brookfield Centre, 1883. VREDERICK SMILLIK CURTIS, Cherai^t,Founder and Principal of the Curtis School,Brookfield Centre, Connecticut, was born in Strat-ford, that state, February 8, 1850, son of Calvinand Elizabeth Augusta (\Vicks) Curtis. He is alineal descendant in the ninth generation of WilliamCurtis, who landed at Scituate, Massachusetts, De-cember 16, 1632, from the ship Liver, with his wife,Elizabeth, a sister of John Eliot the Apostle, whoalso came over in the same ship. \\illiam died in1634, leaving a widow and two sons, John andWilliam, who with other fiiniilies from Roxbury,Massachusetts, journeyed through the wilderness toStratford, Connecticut, which they settled. From^ViIlia
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