Background
Curtis, George Ticknor was born on November 28, 1812 in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Benjamin and Lois (Robbins) Curtis.
Curtis, George Ticknor was born on November 28, 1812 in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Benjamin and Lois (Robbins) Curtis.
Harvard Law School; Harvard University.
After admittance to the Massachusetts bar in 1836, he practiced first in Boston and then in New York City. Curtis was very successful as a patent attorney, working for (among others) Samuel F. B. Morse, Charles Goodyear and Cyrus McCormick. Later, as a United States. commissioner at Boston, Curtis was compelled to send a former slave, Thomas Sims, back to slavery in compliance with the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
He served as co-counsel for Dred Scott when his case reached the United States Supreme Court in 1857.
Sanford. Curtis wrote biographies of Daniel Webster (1870) and James Buchanan (1883) as well as a number of legal treatises, including his oft-cited "A Treatise on the Law of Patents for Useful Inventions in the United States of America" (Curtis on Patents). Among these, his Constitutional History of the United States to the Close of the Civil War (2 vols, 1889 and 1896) has been called the classic Federalist interpretation of the Constitution.
Another notable work is History of the Origin, Formation and Adoption of the Constitution.
From 1840 to 1843, Curtis was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a Whig.
Married Mary Story, October 17, 1844. Married second, Louise Nystrom, January, 1851.