Francis C. Curtis was born in Dudley, MA, the son of Chester Curtis and Lucinda Willis. He fought heroically in the Civil War in Company E of the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and was incarcerated at Andersonville Prison about which he wrote a stirring memoire. Francis led a delegation from Massachusetts in December 1901 to Andersonville, GA for dedication of a monument in memory of Union soldiers from the Commonwealth who perished in that prison. After the war, he had a distinguished business & public service career in Marlborough, MA, where he was an alderman when Marlborough became a city in 1890. Francis also represented the city in the General Court in Boston during 1874 & 1875 and from 1889 through 1891. He was an uncle of Charles Willis Curtis. Francis was married to Caroline A. Brigham on June 8, 1859. They resided on Newton Street and later on Front Street. He was a provision dealer with his brother, Henry Clay Curtis, with a shop in the basement of the old Marlborough Town Hall. Francis was very active in the local Post 43 of the G.A.R. and was on a committee to construct their building on Main Street, which has since been demolished. The John Brown Bell, a trophy from Harper's Ferry, WVA, hung from the G.A.R. Building for more than a century.
Francis C. Curtis was born in Dudley, MA, the son of Chester Curtis and Lucinda Willis. He fought heroically in the Civil War in Company E of the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and was incarcerated at Andersonville Prison about which he wrote a stirring memoire. Francis led a delegation from Massachusetts in December 1901 to Andersonville, GA for dedication of a monument in memory of Union soldiers from the Commonwealth who perished in that prison. After the war, he had a distinguished business & public service career in Marlborough, MA, where he was an alderman when Marlborough became a city in 1890. Francis also represented the city in the General Court in Boston during 1874 & 1875 and from 1889 through 1891. He was an uncle of Charles Willis Curtis. Francis was married to Caroline A. Brigham on June 8, 1859. They resided on Newton Street and later on Front Street. He was a provision dealer with his brother, Henry Clay Curtis, with a shop in the basement of the old Marlborough Town Hall. Francis was very active in the local Post 43 of the G.A.R. and was on a committee to construct their building on Main Street, which has since been demolished. The John Brown Bell, a trophy from Harper's Ferry, WVA, hung from the G.A.R. Building for more than a century.
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