Samuel R. Curtis, 54 years of age, is a native of Ohio, his parents having emigrated from Connecticut; was a resident of New York when, as a cadet, he, in 1827, entered west point; he was brevetted second lieutenant Seventh Infantry July 1, 1831; resigned June 30, 1832. Devoted himself to the law of civil engineering, and from April 1837, to May 1839, was chief engineer of the Muskingum Improvement, for slack water navigation. He was Adjutant General of Ohio for 1846. In June of that year, having prepared the military outfit of the Ohio forces, the volunteer contributions of Ohio, he took the field himself as Colonel of the Third Ohio regiment twelve months’ volunteers; after the close of the war he acted as Assistant Adjutant General to Brigadier General Wool. He was also civil and military Governor of Saltillo, Mexico; also of Matamoras, Camargo and Monterey, in 1847. When Iowa determined on the project to remove the obstruction at the Des Moines rapids of the Mississippi river, he was chosen chief engineer, and took up his residence at Keokuk. He was several years in Congress from Iowa and resigned to accept a commission as Brigadier General.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 25, 1862, p. 2
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