. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. GEORGE MILTON CURTIS I rriHF name of George Milton Curtis inevitably suggests NewT Engtal oririn, fnd before tbat at least some measure o£BritiS:tt;.^be name 0. bis fatber,BeriabC^^^^^ aeteristically tbat ot a ^^^-^^^^^^Jt^l^^ of i^iB^sirbri^=.3n^^^^^^^^ citv of Worcester, Massachusetts. Scbool, and tben at the Baptist Academy ™ tbe sam^ c lasUamed institution he was prepanng ^^^ f ^.^lege when the Civil War broke out. Jl^^ P;*™ J, i,, i,idaSmated M»-->™-^%7*\C 1 -ste aL a private inrTJSdtatLli^^orRVesVlder the command of Ma^or
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. GEORGE MILTON CURTIS I rriHF name of George Milton Curtis inevitably suggests NewT Engtal oririn, fnd before tbat at least some measure o£BritiS:tt;.^be name 0. bis fatber,BeriabC^^^^^ aeteristically tbat ot a ^^^-^^^^^^Jt^l^^ of i^iB^sirbri^=.3n^^^^^^^^ citv of Worcester, Massachusetts. Scbool, and tben at the Baptist Academy ™ tbe sam^ c lasUamed institution he was prepanng ^^^ f ^.^lege when the Civil War broke out. Jl^^ P;*™ J, i,, i,idaSmated M»-->™-^%7*\C 1 -ste aL a private inrTJSdtatLli^^orRVesVlder the command of Ma^or r Curtis had a ereditahle -^^ «ef -eer m *e^^y, and tresHtt tw!::bi!t pis fHhf orti^-r:^ *^ OR I i. ^^^.62^ \ -I] i w 11 !? GEORGE MILTON CURTIS gj while studying law he maintained himself and paid aU his ex-penses by doing newspaper work as a reporter, and by contrib-utmg articles to legal, medical, and Hterary periodicals. In thisway he developed a good hterary style, which has been charac-teristic of all his writings since. Soon after his admission to the bar Mr. Curtis made his entrymto pohtical hfe. It is indeed a notable record that the youthwho was a student in 1860 became a soldier in 1861, a lawyer in1862, and a lawmaker in 1863; for he was elected a member ofthe New York State Assembly in 1863, one of the yoimgest menever seated in that body. Despite his youth, he quickly madehis mark there. He dehvered an impassioned defense of Gov-ernor Seymour, which has become almost a classic of pohticaleloquence. He was reelected for a second term, and in that termdehvered a speech upon the subject of a health bill wliich at-tracted the attention of the entire State, and, indeed, o
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