Background
He was born on July 14, 1852, and he had a younger brother, Julian Wheeler Curtiss.
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Edwin Curtiss
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Education
Edwin graduated from Columbia University.
Career
In 1878 he formed the firm of Cunningham, Curtiss & Welsh of San Francisco, wholesale stationers and booksellers, blank book manufacturers, printers, and lithographers. 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. 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.
