. Evening post annual, Biographical sketches [with portraits] of the state officers, representatives in Congress, governor's staff, and senators and members of the General assembly of the state of Connecticut . ^*H- Hon. HOEACE D. CURTISS, DISTRICT NO. 20. Hon. Horace D. Curtiss of Woodbury, Ee-publican Senator from the Twentieth District,was born in Woodbury forty-three years was educated at the common schools and hasbeen first selectman. He has also tilled minoroffices. He is connected with the woolen manu-facturing concern of Daniel Curtiss & Sons and with the Tapestry Manufacturing
. Evening post annual, Biographical sketches [with portraits] of the state officers, representatives in Congress, governor's staff, and senators and members of the General assembly of the state of Connecticut . ^*H- Hon. HOEACE D. CURTISS, DISTRICT NO. 20. Hon. Horace D. Curtiss of Woodbury, Ee-publican Senator from the Twentieth District,was born in Woodbury forty-three years was educated at the common schools and hasbeen first selectman. He has also tilled minoroffices. He is connected with the woolen manu-facturing concern of Daniel Curtiss & Sons and with the Tapestry Manufacturing Company,which last named corporation hae the reputation of making silk goods as rich and handsome as anythat are made on this continent, and monfectly woven than those imported. In L86&in L884 he represented Woodbury in the B 11 83. Hon. JOHN ALLEN DISTRICT NO. 21. Hon. John Allen of Old Saybrook, Republi-can Senator from the Twenty-first District, wasborn in Meriden, February 6, 1815, the eldestson of Levi Allen, a farmer and prominent citi-zen, and a lineal descendant of Deacon RogerAllen, one of the early settlers of New receiving a good academic education liewas placed in the store of Major Elisha in his native town, where he served aclerkship from the age of fourteen to twenty. Inthe spring of 1836 he removed to New York andentered the employ of Perkins, Hopkins & White,wholesale dry goods jobbers, having large busi-ness interests with the South. When the firmwas reorganized, in 1842, he became a partnerwith Perkins & Hopkins, afterward Hopkins,Allen & Company. It was with the latter firmthat he became widely known. November 10, 1847, he married Mary Ann Phelps, a daughterof the late Hon. Elisha Phelpe ofSimsbury. lbwithdrew trow mercantile Life just before theand settled at
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