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RINALDO I. CURTIS, M.D., a prominent practicing physician of Mayville, N. Y., of the Homoeopathic school, is the son of Minor and Amanda (Ingoldsby) Curtis, and was born in Warren, Pa., March 27, 1837. His grandfather, Asa Curtis, emigrated to Warren, Pa., from the New England States, but afterwards removed west to the State of Illinois, where he died. Minor Curtis, father of Rinaldo I., was a native of the State of Vermont, removed for a short time to Warren. Pa., and thence to Chautauqua county, New York, where he died in 1882. In early life he learned the trade of a shoemaker, afterwards became a shoe merchant and during the latter part of his life retired from active occupation. He was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, for all of whose interests he had an earnest solicitude. His marriage to Amanda Ingoldsby was fruitful in the birth of the following children: Wilson P., married to Tirzah Thompson, at present living at North Warren, Pa. At the outbreak of the civil war he entered the Union army and served a long period of enlistment, taking part in numerous battles and engagements; Minor A., married to Miss Carpenter, now living in Rogers, Arkansas, where he is a practicing physician and surgeon, graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, Illinois; and Rinaldo I.

On October 1, 1861, Rinaldo I. Curtis was united in marriage to Helen M. Bemus, a daughter of Matthew P. Bemus of Chautauqua county, New York, by whom he has three children: Matthew, married and now living at Mayville, New York, a painter by trade and father of one child, Raymond; Charles, married to Anna Henhiran of Jamestown, New York, an electrician; and George W.

Rinaldo I. Curtis received his education through the common and high schools of Warren, Pa., at the completion of which he entered upon the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Drs. Robinson and Kise. He afterwards taught school for a time, continued the study of medicine at St. Louis, Missouri, and afterwards entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, from which he graduated in the spring of 1861. Upon his graduation he went to Warren, Pa., and practiced with his old preceptor, Dr. Kise, about three months, when he removed to Mayville, New York, where he has continued his practice with extraordinary success. Upon his arrival at Mayville, it devolved upon him to overcome the prejudices of the people in favor of the old schools of medicine, but being well versed in the principles of homoeopathy and its claims, he was not long in demonstrating by successful practice and treatment, the scientific principles of the school which he represented.

Dr. Curtis is an active supporter of the Republican cause and, although he has been solicited upon various occasions to present himself for official preferment, has steadily refused. He belongs to Lodge, No. 284, of the I. O. O. F., at Mayville, New York, of which he is treasurer, and also to the Knights of Honor, in which he holds the office of dictator. Dr. Curtis’s father-in-law, Hon. Matthew Bemus, was one of the prominent and highly respected citizens of Chautauqua county, He served a number of years as a member of the New York Legislature, was instrumental in the building of the C. C. R. R., now a part of the B. & N. W. R. R., and was also foremost in any movement which tended to the industrial, educational or philanthropic development of the county, He died in 1882.