This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TmQ.2ACIB/2110 Message Board Post: EVENING POST ANNUAL, 1882 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of the State Officers, Representatives in Congress, Governor’s Staff, and Senators and Members of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. Published Annually. Hartford, Conn.: Evening Post Association. 1882. Pg. 118 WILLIAM BRONSON CURTIS, Representative for North Branford, New Haven County: Of North Branford, is a native of Exeter, Otsego County, New York, and is sixty-nine years of age. After the usual course of instruction at the common schools; he entered Yale College, graduating therefrom in 1840, and in 1843 was ordained to the ministry at Humphreyville, now Seymour. Nearly up to the time he entered Yale he worked upon his father’s farm, and now employs his otherwise unoccupied time in assisting in the care of his son’s farm. He has never held political or civil office until now, and has not been a politician in the popular sense. He is a Republican.