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Curtis, William Eleroy was born on November 5, 1850 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Eleroy and Harriet (Coe) Curtis.
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William Eleroy Curtis
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Bachelor of Arts, Western Reserve College, 1871 (Doctor of Letters, 1901. Doctor of Humane Letters, Amherst, 1907).
Career
On staff of Chicago Inter Ocean, 1873-1887. Washington correspondent Chicago Record, 1887-1901, Chicago Record-Herald, since 1901. Special commissioner from United States to Central and South America, Republics.
Executive officer International American Conference, 1889-1890.
Director Bureau American Republics, 1890-1893. Chief Latin-American department and history section, Chicago Exposition, 1891-1893.
Commissioner of Chicago Exposition to Madrid, and special envoy to the Queen Regent of Spain and Pope Leo XIII, 1892. Author: Tibbalses Folks, 1875.
A Summer Scamper, 1881.
The Life of Zachariah Chandler, 1879. Children of the Sun, 1882. Capitals of Spanish America, 1886.
The Land of the Nihilist, 1887.
Trade and Transportation, 1889. Handbook to the American Republics, 1890.
Guatemala, 1891. Costa Rica, 1891. Ecuador, 1891.
Venezuela—A Land Where lieutenant Is Always Summer, 1891. The United States and Foreign Powers, 1892, 1899.
The Existing Autographs of Columbus, 1893. Relics of Columbus, 1893, same.
Recent Discoveries Concerning the Early Settlement of America in the Archives of the Vatican, 1894.
The Yankees of the East, 1896. To-day in France and Germany, 1897. Between the Andes and the Ocean, 1901.
The True Thomas Jefferson, 1901.
The Turk and His Lost Provinces, 1902. Denmark, Sweden and Norway, 1903.
The True Abraham Lincoln, 1903. To-day in Syria and Palestine, 1904.
Modern India, 1905; Egypt, Burma and the British East Indies, 1905.
One Irish Summer, 1909.
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Married Cora Belle Kepler, December 23, 1874.
