Background
Curtis, Francis Joseph was born on April 22, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Henry and Mary Ellen (McCarthy) Curtis.
Curtis, Francis Joseph was born on April 22, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Henry and Mary Ellen (McCarthy) Curtis.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1915. Unmarried.
With Monsanto Chemical Company and subsidiaries, Saint Louis, since 1915 as member research department, 1915-1920, member production department, 1920-1925, sales department, Merrimac Chemical Company, subsidiary, Everett, Massachusetts, 1925-1930, development director, 1930-1935. Assistant development director, Monsanto Chemical Company, 1935-1939, development director, 1939-1943, vice president, since 1943, director, since 1949. Civilian consultant Chemical Warfare Ser., 1945.
Assistant administrator National Production.
Fellow American Institute of Chemists. Member American Institute of Chemical Engineers (past president, New New York