Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe (1825-1903), American educator, lawyer and minister, was born in Lincoln County, Georgia. He was a member of the Confederate Congress. After the war he became a minister, and later professor of law at Richmond College. For four years (1881-85), he acted as general agent of the Peabody Educational Fund and later was chairman of the Educational Committee of the Slater Fund. From 1885 to 1888 he represented the U. S. as minister at Madrid. His published writings embrace a treatise on Constitutional Government in Spain, a memoir of William Ewart Gladstone and a work, issued in 1894, on The Southern States of the American Union. Besides a History of the Peabody Educational Fund, he wrote a work on Establishment and Disestablishment in the United States.
Curtis, George Ticknor, American writer on legal topics, was born at Watertown, Mass., Nov. 28, 1812; and died at New York, March 28, 1894. Graduating at Harvard in 1832, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, practicing first at Boston and later at New York. He served for some years in the Massachusetts legislature, but at length devoted himself to the writing of legal text-books and the compilation of decisions in the courts of common law and admiralty in the United States. One of his most notable works is his History of the Origin, Formation and Adoption of the Constitution. Another useful work is his Constitutional History of the United States from 1792—1864. He also wrote lives of Daniel Webster and James Buchanan.
Cur'tis, George William, American author, was born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 24, 1824. As a boy he spent a year in New York as a clerk, and worked for some time as a farm-hand in Massachusetts. His first book, Nile Notes of a Howadji, was written after traveling in Egypt and Syria. He was one of the first editors of Putnam's Monthly, founded in 1852. He also was a partner in the undertaking, though having nothing to do with the business management. When, in 1859, the enterprise failed, Mr. Curtis sank all his fortune in the endeavor to save the creditors from loss, which he accomplished after six years' struggle. He wrote many essays, sketches and novels, and was successful as a lecturer. He is best known as the editor of Harper's Weekly and editor of the Easy Chair in Harper's Magazine. Mr. Curtis was prominent in politics, acting with the Republican party till 1884, but afterward supporting the bemocrats. He died on Staten Island, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1892.
Curtius (ko͝or'tē-o͝os), Ernst, was born Sept. 2, 1814, at Lübeck, Germany. He studied at Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin Universities. He made careful journeys in Greece, held several university professorships, and soon became noted as a writer on Greek history and geography. His great work, The History of Greece, is in the front rank of histories. Dr. Curtius was, late in life, professor at the University of Berlin. He died on July 12, 1896.
Curwen, John (1816-1880). Originator of the Tonic Sol-fa method of teaching singing. He was educated for the ministry at University College, London, but became author of Grammar of Vocal Music; A Tonic Sol-fa Primer; Musical Theory; Musical Statics; and other useful works.
Cur'zon, George Nathaniel, Lord, ex-viceroy and governor-general of British India, was born at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, England, on Jan. 11, 1859, and educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. He entered Parliament in the Conservative interest in 1886, and was subsequently under-secretary of state for India and under-secretary for foreign affairs. Lord Curzon has traveled considerably and published a number of thoughtful books. In 1895 he married the eldest daughter of Mr. L. Z. Leiter, a Chicago millionaire. In 1898 he was appointed by the Marquis of Salisbury, Viceroy of India, a post which he has filled with high ability. His writings include Russia in Central Asia; Persia and the Persian Question; and Problems of the Far East. In 1898 he was created Baron Curzon of Kedleston. His term of office as Indian Viceroy was extended. In June, 1905, difficulties over the new military scheme in India led to his resigning. The resignation was withdrawn upon solicitation of home-authorities, but in August controversy again reached an acute stage, and Lord Curzon finally relinquished office. He remained in India to receive the Prince and Princess of Wales. The London Times spoke of his work as “among the most brilliant and strenuous accomplished for the empire in our times,” and of his having infused into Indian civil administration a new spirit born of his own indomitable belief in reform and his own unshaken determination to carry it into practice. His speeches as Viceroy have been reprinted. Since his return to England he has been returned from an Irish constituency to the House of Lords, of which body, as a peer, he is already officially a member.
Cushing, Caleb, American diplomatist and jurist, was born at Salisbury, Mass., Jan. 17, 1800; and died at Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 2, 1879. After graduating at Harvard, he studied law, traveled in Europe, was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and finally became a member of Congress. He served for eight years in the house, and in 1843-44 was United States commissioner to China. From 1845 to 1847 he
