Background
Curtis, Sumner was born on November 14, 1868 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joseph Walker and Julia Ella (Macomber) Curtis.
Curtis, Sumner was born on November 14, 1868 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joseph Walker and Julia Ella (Macomber) Curtis.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Wisconsin, 1889.
Political and legislative correspondent at Wisconsin State Capital for Milwaukee Sentinel and Chicago Tribune, 1889-1891. Washington correspondent Milwaukee Sentinel, 1891-1894. Reporter Chicago Times-Herald, 1895-1897.
War correspondent New York Herald, 1898.
With Chicago Record-Herald, 1904-1914, political editor, 1905, in charge Washington bureau and editorial writer, 1906-1910, Washington correspondent, 1910-1914. Special agent of Department of State, attached to American Embassy at Berlin, 1914.
Political correspondent Washington (District of Columbia) Post, 1915-1916. With literature department American Red Cross War Council, 1917-1919.
Editor National Red Cross Bulletin, since 1918.
Appointed assistant to chairman Republican National Committee, 1923. During Spanish-American War was in charge, at different times, of dispatch boats Sommers North. Smith, Mindora and Golden Rod, in West Indian waters.
Married Henriette Gregory, July 3, 1906.