Identifier: markinconnect00osbo (find matches)
Title: Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Osborn, Norris Galpin, b. 1858, ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- Biography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., W.R. Goodspeed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and hard grinding work day after day, withbut little encouragement and small chance of promotion, taught himfortitude and perseverance under adverse conditions. His best helpat this time came from his daily contact with business men. For tenyears his position was that of a clerk and in January, 1897, he wassent to the bookkeepers desk, where he remained for five years. InJanuary, 1902, he became assistant to the cashier and remained inthat position up to April, 1903, when he accepted the position ofvice-president and treasurer of the New Haven Trust Company, after,sixteen years of service with one institution, Mr. Curtiss has served the State of Connecticut as a citizen sol-dier since 1894, when he enlisted in Company F, Second ConnecticutMilitia, familiarly known as the New Haven Grays. He receivedpromotion to second lieutenant in November, 1898; to first lieutenantin 1901, and was retired after a continuous service of nine years inJune. 1903. Mr. Curtiss was still unmarried in 1906.
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JACOB LYMAN GREENE (^ REENE, JACOB LYMAN, was born on the ninth day of Au-ir gust, A.D., 1837, in the town of Wateriord and the State ofMaine. His parents, Captain Jacob Holt Greene and SirahWalker Frye, were both of noble lineage, lor in their veins pulsed theblood of the Greenes, the Fryes, the Holts, the Abbots, the Poors, theTrumbulls, the Kilburns, and the Gordons, some of whom are more orless distinguished for various virtues and gallant services in theFrench and Indian and Revolutionary wars. The boyhood and youth of this sturdy, earnest lad, fond of hisbooks as well as of manly sports, was passed, until twenty years of age,on his fathers farm amid the granite hills and pastoral slopes of hisnative state. The influence of both parents was strong on his intel-lectual and his spiritual life. In later years he spoke of his father asone of the unheralded heroes, possessing great intelligence, high-mindedness, and dauntless courage. Young Greene took advantage of every opportunity f

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