Bio: Curtis, John E. (1877 - 19??)

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Surnames: Curtis, Yale, Ringle

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

Curtis, John E. (10 August 1877 - 1 9??)

JOHN E. CURTIS, who has been identified with the Curtis & Yale Company at Wausau, for the past eighteen years, is now assistant superintendent of their large plant and stands in the relation of a thoroughly trusted employee. He was born at Dennison, Iowa, August l0, 1877, and is a son of C. S. Curtis.  

The parents of Mr. Curtis came to Wausau with their children in 1881 and here he attended both the common and high schools and afterward a military school at Knoxville. Illinois. He then returned to Wausau and entered the employ of Curtis & Yale and has had practical experience in every department including the office. For thirteen years he was superintendent of the company's plant No. 2 and then came to plant No. 1, in his present capacity.  

Mr. Curtis married Miss Pauline Ringle, daughter of Valentine Ringle, and they have two children: Cornelius Valentine and Evelyn Pauline. Mr. Curtis has passed all the chairs in the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, of which he is the present chancellor, and he belongs also to the Elks and to the Wausau Club.