Name Edwin Curtiss Died March 30, 1928 | Education Columbia University | |
Spouse Virginia Henry Curtiss Heckscher | ||
Edwin Burr Curtiss (July 14, 1852 – March 30, 1928), was an attorney, bookseller, and a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.
Biography
He was born on July 14, 1852, and he had a younger brother, Julian Wheeler Curtiss. Edwin graduated from Columbia University. In 1878 he formed the firm of Cunningham, Curtiss & Welsh of San Francisco, wholesale stationers and booksellers, blank book manufacturers, printers, and lithographers. (Curtiss was based primarily in New York City.) In 1892, together with his brother, Julian Wheeler Curtiss, and others, he started the Fairfield County Golf Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.
By 1900 and at least through 1908, he was a vice president of the American Booksellers Association. He retired from the law in 1908 and was a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.
He was married to Virginia Henry. Edwin Burr Curtiss died on March 30, 1928. His widow went on to marry August Heckscher.
Curtiss commissioned the architects Carrère and Hastings, who had also designed the original clubhouse for the Greenwich Country Club, to build him a house on North Street in Greenwich, Connecticut.