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/2193 Message Board Post: From HISTORY OF AMADOR COUNTY CALIFORNIA with ILLISTRATIONS By Thompson and West 1881 Pacific Printers Publishing House, Printers, Sterotypers and binders, Oakland, Cal. Submitted by Lori J. (Powell) Wicks © September 2004 W. T. CURTIS W. T. CURTIS came from Ohio in an early day, making his home at Drytown. He was a man of fine culture, gentlemanly in manner, and much more disposed to advise a peaceful settlement of a difficulty than costly litigation. He usually made himself prominent in allaying, rather than fomenting, the riotous spirit which so commonly existed in the mining towns of an early day. He was especially prominent in mitigating the inexcusable anger of the population after the atrocious murders and Rancheria. He was a Republican in sediment and a candidate for district attorney on the same ticket which was headed by the name of John C. Fremont, in 1856. He stumped the county for Fremont, speaking in every place of any size. His candor and gentlemanly qualities were appreciated by France and opponents alike, and he was always in respectfully listen to. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he joined the Union Army as a to an officer in high rank. From the best information attainable! , he was killed early in the contest.