Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . kers in the country, and hasdeclined numerous invitations to become a pastor,preferring to preach occasionally. An addressmade by him before the Evangelical alliance, urg-ing the complete separation of church and state,was reprinted and distributed in England by thedisestablishment party. In the spring of 1885 was appointed IT. S. minister to Spain, andin that capacity he has settled several importantquestions that have been pending for years. Mer-cer university, Georgia, gave him the degree ofLL. D. in 1867, and Rochester university that
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . kers in the country, and hasdeclined numerous invitations to become a pastor,preferring to preach occasionally. An addressmade by him before the Evangelical alliance, urg-ing the complete separation of church and state,was reprinted and distributed in England by thedisestablishment party. In the spring of 1885 was appointed IT. S. minister to Spain, andin that capacity he has settled several importantquestions that have been pending for years. Mer-cer university, Georgia, gave him the degree ofLL. D. in 1867, and Rochester university that ofD. D. in 1871. He is a contributor to the religiouspress, and has published speeches and pamphlets. CURRY, Otway, journalist, b. in , 26 March. 1804: d. in Marysville. IT He removed with his father to PleasantValley, Ohio, in 1811. and his early education wasinterrupted by the war. He went to Lebanonin 1823, learned the carpenters trade, and workedat it in various towns till 1829, at the same time 34 CURTIN CURTIS. writing poetry for the newspapers. He was then afarmer in Union county till IS:!;1, ami served in theslature in IS;U>-?. lie became one of the edi-• rs of the Hesperian, at Columbus, Ohio, in- -. ami in 1839 began to study law at was again in the legislature in 1843, and in thatyear bought the Greene County Torchlight, pub-lished in Xmia. Ohio, lie returned to Marvsvillein 1845, ami practised his profession till his death,t in 1 N-»>-4. when he edited the Scioto Ga-/.ette. in Chillieothe. He published - Love of the st, a poem (Cincinnati, 1838). See Coggeshalls•? r ts and Poetry of the West.** CURTIN, Andrew Gregg, governor of Penn-sylvania, b, in Bellefonte, Centre eo., Pa., 82 April,1*815. His father, Roland Curtin, emigrated from•id in 1793, and in 1807 established near;. fonte one of the first manufactories of ironin that region. Andrew studied law in Dickinsoncollege law-school, was admitted to the bar in
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