Background
Curtiss, Charles Dwight was born on December 23, 1887 in Camden, Michigan, United States. Son of Manly Jackson and Addie Elmira (Alward) Curtiss.
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Curtiss, Charles Dwight was born on December 23, 1887 in Camden, Michigan, United States. Son of Manly Jackson and Addie Elmira (Alward) Curtiss.
Michigan State College, Bachelor of Science, 1911. Columbia University. Master of Arts, 1915. Iowa State College, Continuing Education, 1916.
Instructor сivil engineering Michigan State College, 1911-1913. Superintendent asphalt plant Continental Public Works Company, 1914. Bridge inspector Michigan State Highway Department, 1915.
Assistant engineer Iowa State Highway Commission, 1915-1917. Testing and inspector engineer J.B. McCrary Company, Atlanta, 1917. Assistant to chief United States Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce, 1919-1927, chief division control, 1927-1943, deputy comr. finance and management 1943-1955, commissioner 1955-1957.
Special assistant to executive vice president, American Road Builders Association, from 1958. First lieutenant to captain, American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers (1st Executive Committee highway Division and secretary of division 1923-1947, chairman of the executive committee 1926. Member Institute Traffic Engineers. Mason (32 degree).; Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Dorothea Davis, July 18, 1919. Children: Charles Dwight, Martha.