Guide to the General Curtiss Estate Correspondence MSS.2117
Curtiss, General--Estate
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Finding aid prepared by Jamie Burke
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
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September 2009
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General Curtiss Estate Correspondence
- Unit ID:
MSS.2117
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 linear foot (2 letters, 2 envelopes, 1 business card )
- Dates:
1871
- Abstract:
Both of these letters are to members of the Hines family in Newburgh, Indiana, discussing the will and estate of General Curtiss.
- creator
Castle, L.C.
- creator
Curtiss, Horatio
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
General Curtiss Estate correspondence, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Jamie Burke, August 2008
Biographical/Historical note
L.C. Castle was a legal counselor living in Memphis, Tennessee.
Scope and Contents note
Two letters to members of the Hines family in Newburgh, Indiana. One letter is from Horatio Curtiss in Clinton, New York to Olney Hines discussing the beneficaries and assets in the will of General Curtiss. The second letter is to Mr. E.C. Hines in Newburgh, Warrick County, Indiana. The letter discusses the will of General Curtiss and the heirs of his estate. L.C. Castle was counsel to the executor of the will and had been communicating with George I.E. Carroll about the will. The business card is for a K. Carroll, attorney in Rome, New York.
General Curtiss Estate Correspondence 0.1 linear foot Box SC0008 Folder 2117
Letter from L. C. Castle, Memphis, Tennessee, to E. C. Hines, Newburgh, Indiana, April 1, 1871 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32173
Letter from Horatio Curtiss, Clinton, New York, to Olney Hines, Newburgh, Indiana, October 16, 1871 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32174