Background
Curtis, James Freeman was born on August 16, 1878 in Manchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Greely Stevenson and Harriot (Appleton) Curtis.
Curtis, James Freeman was born on August 16, 1878 in Manchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Greely Stevenson and Harriot (Appleton) Curtis.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1899, Bachelor of Laws, 1903.
With firm of Storey, Thorndike, Palmer & Thayer, Boston, 1903-1906. Assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, 1906-1909. Assistant district attorney, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, March-November, 1909.
Assistant secretary of treasury, November 26, 1909-July 31, 1913.
Counsel and deputy governor Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1914-1919. Member Denison & Curtis, 1919-1921, Curtis, Fosdick & Belknap, 1921-1936, Curtis, Belknap & Webb, 1937-1939, Curtis & Belknap, 1940-1947.
Counsel to Patterson, Belknap & Webb since 1947.
Member Denison & Curtis, 1919-1921, Curtis, Fosdick & Belknap, 1921-1936, Curtis, Belknap & Webb, 1937-1939, Curtis & Belknap, 1940-1947. Clubs: Tavern, Harvard (Boston).
Married November 26, 1912, Laura Beatrice Merriam. Married second, Eleanor Munroe Green, September 25, 1938. Children: Laura Elizabeth, James F., Frazier, Pauline.