Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — W. E. CURTIS DROPS DEAD [ARTICLE]

W. E. CURTIS DROPS DEAD

Journalist Succumbs Following Arrival in Pennsylvania City. Philadelphia, Oct. 6. William E. Curtis, journalist and author, died suddenly here, Mr. Curtis, who was a special writer for the Chicago Record Herald, was sixty-qne years old and was known throughout America. He was a widely traveled man and had put the observations of his travels into several books Ho was born in Akron, O, in 1850, and was graduated from Western Reserve college in 1871. His newspaper career began in Chicago when he became a member of the staff of the Inter Ocean in 1873. After serving this

newspaper tot fourteen yea r* fie went * to Washington as correspondent of the Chicago Herald until 1901, in which j year he Joined the staff of the Record Herald and contributed a daily articlej on travel in different parts of the globe. -