Binghamton, its settlement, growth and development . r being the son of General Roselle Curtiss,a pioneer lumberman and land surveyor in the Genesee valley. Gen-eral Curtiss father was an English sea captain who settled in Royal-ton, Vt., in which historic locality he, also, was a pioneer. Of CaptainCurtiss, or his antecedents, little is now known, but he is believed tohave been Elias Curtiss, whose property \vas destroyed by the Indiansat the burning of Royalton, October 16, 1780. In 1856 George Curtissleft the Genesee valley and settled in McHenry county. 111., where hewas a farmer. He enlis
Binghamton, its settlement, growth and development . r being the son of General Roselle Curtiss,a pioneer lumberman and land surveyor in the Genesee valley. Gen-eral Curtiss father was an English sea captain who settled in Royal-ton, Vt., in which historic locality he, also, was a pioneer. Of CaptainCurtiss, or his antecedents, little is now known, but he is believed tohave been Elias Curtiss, whose property \vas destroyed by the Indiansat the burning of Royalton, October 16, 1780. In 1856 George Curtissleft the Genesee valley and settled in McHenry county. 111., where hewas a farmer. He enlisted and served in the 127th Illinois Infantryuntil July, 1863, when he died of fever in front of Vicksburg, young life of George B. Curtiss was spent on a farm, attendingdistrict school in the winter and working the farm in the summer. Fortwo years he attended an academic school at Marengo, 111., duringwhich time he determined to enter the legal profession, although cir-cumstances compelled him to pursue other avocations for several GEORGE B. CURTISS. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 369 In the early part of 1875 he became a student in the NorthwesternBusiness college at Madison, Wis., from which institution he was grad-uated in September following. He then returned to Illinois andtaught penmanship in an academic school at Elgin, and also taught aschool opened by himself at Woodstock. In the spring of 1876 he wasengaged by Daniel W. Lowell as professor of the penmanship depart-ment in Lowells Easiness college at Binghamton, and on April 22 ofthat year he came to reside in this city. He was connected with thecollege four years, and during that time devoted his leisure to the studyof law in the office of Hotchkiss & Millard, and afterward with A. UeWitt Wales; and at the same time he took a special course of study inthe sciences under the instruction of Prof. A. E. Magoris of the B. S. At the General Term of the Supreme court held at Ithaca inMay, 1880, he was admitt
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