Bio: Curtis, Cornelius S. (1851 - 19??)

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Surnames: Curtis, Yale, Ingram, Gulick

---Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Curtis, Cornelius S. (1 August 1851 - 19??)

CORNELIUS S. CURTIS, president of the Curtis-Yale Company, manufacturers of sash, doors, etc., at Wausau, is officially or otherwise connected with additional enterprises of large importance here. He was born on a farm in Chenango County, N. Y., August 1, 1851, and is a son of John S. and Elizabeth Curtis.  

Cornelius S. Curtis left his native state when five years old, went to Rochelle, Ill., and remained there until early manhood. He went to Clinton, Ia., in the year of 1869 to join his two brothers, who, in 1866, had established themselves in the manufacture of sash, door and inside wood workin that city. In 1869 Mr. Curtis entered the factory and worked in all departments of the business, in 1872 starting out as commercial man and continued on the road until coming to Wausau. When Mr. Curtis came to Wausau, June 3, 1881, it was as a member of the firm of Curtis Bros., & Co., and the business was established here under the same title. On January 1, 1893, the Curtis Yale Company was incorporated separately, and at the same time took over the Minneapolis branch of Curtis Bros. & Co., it being the jobbing house of the firm. This is the largest factory of any kind in Marathon County, having two plants at Wausau and giving employment to 600 people. In addition to being president of the above corporation, Mr. Curtis is president of the Ingram Lumber Company of Wausau: president of the Wausau Sand Paper Company; president of the Fenwood Lumber Company of Wausau, and second vice president of the First National Bank of Wausau.  

Mr. Curtis was married at Clinton, Ia., to Miss Emma M. Gulick, of that city, and they have two sons: John E., who is superintendent of plant No. 2, of the Curtis Yale Company at Wausau; and Walter E., who is secretary and assistant treasurer of the Curtis Yale Company. Mr. Curtis is prominent in Masonic circles, is a Mason of the thirty-second degree and a Shriner Socially he is identified with the Wausau Club and the Wausau Country Club