David Curry was the founder, along with his wife Jennie, of Camp Curry in Yosemite National Park. The couple were school teachers who loved nature and trekked West to enjoy the offerings of the beautiful Yosemite region, finding that it was too expensive for them to stay there. In June of 1899 after they had retired from school teaching and moved to California, they established Camp Curry with the permission of Galen Clark who was the Yosemite Guardian (Yosemite was then still a state park). Camp Curry was located at the eastern end of the Valley among cedar trees and at the base of Glacier Point. For $2.00 a day, they provided a tent, good food, and the company of others seeking the same nature experience in the exquisite Yosemite Valley. Many of their first visitors were educators. David Curry was remembered by his daughter in a memoir as "big in body, mind and soul, interested in life and people, simple in his ways and habits, absolutely without any affection, his friendly spirit and genial whole-souledness appealed to people." He was the son of William R. Curry and Mary Kerr of Indiana. He married Jennie Foster on March 6, 1886; they had three children: David Foster Curry (1888-1932); Marjorie Lucile (Curry) Williams (1895-1975); and Mary Louise Curry (1893-1970). David Curry Camp Curry April 30, 1917.had injured his foot and later died of complications of diabetes at the German Hospital in San Francisco hospital.
David Curry was the founder, along with his wife Jennie, of Camp Curry in Yosemite National Park. The couple were school teachers who loved nature and trekked West to enjoy the offerings of the beautiful Yosemite region, finding that it was too expensive for them to stay there. In June of 1899 after they had retired from school teaching and moved to California, they established Camp Curry with the permission of Galen Clark who was the Yosemite Guardian (Yosemite was then still a state park). Camp Curry was located at the eastern end of the Valley among cedar trees and at the base of Glacier Point. For $2.00 a day, they provided a tent, good food, and the company of others seeking the same nature experience in the exquisite Yosemite Valley. Many of their first visitors were educators. David Curry was remembered by his daughter in a memoir as "big in body, mind and soul, interested in life and people, simple in his ways and habits, absolutely without any affection, his friendly spirit and genial whole-souledness appealed to people." He was the son of William R. Curry and Mary Kerr of Indiana. He married Jennie Foster on March 6, 1886; they had three children: David Foster Curry (1888-1932); Marjorie Lucile (Curry) Williams (1895-1975); and Mary Louise Curry (1893-1970). David Curry Camp Curry April 30, 1917.had injured his foot and later died of complications of diabetes at the German Hospital in San Francisco hospital.
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