My Genealogy Hound

W. H. Curtice, editor and proprietor of the Seneca Dispatch, is a native of Whitewater, Wis., born July 7, 1857, his parents being H. J. and Louise (Capron) Curtice. The father is a well-informed man, and is the editor of the Miner and Mechanic, of Neosho. In 1866 he removed to Springfield, Mo., and here his son, W. H., was educated. Our subject also learned the art of printing, with George M. Sawyer, in the office of the Springfield Patriot, and has followed that trade ever since, working at different places east and west. He became interested in the Miner and Mechanic with his father in 1881, and took the job department. In two years, on account of his health, he sold out, and in September, 1884, he took a position with the Huber & Wack Milling and Live Stock Co., of Seneca, as cashier. He remained with them three years, and then established a job printing office at Greensburg, Kas., in August, 1887. October 1 of the same year he purchased the Seneca Dispatch, which he has since operated, adding to the plant his job office, and otherwise improving it. Mr. Curtice is a member of the K. L. of H., and is a man of education and influence. He was married in Newton County, Mo., December 4, 1881, to Miss Alice Ames, a native of Clyde, Ohio, and the daughter of D. D. and Emma Ames. Mrs. Curtice has been conducting a music school in Seneca since 1884, giving piano and vocal lessons, and a large hall on the same floor as the printing office is used for this purpose.