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Junes Freemen Curtis COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Register of Papers Processed! MA Detet 10/25/55 CURTIS (1878 - 1952) the working correspondence and memoranda of Jtaea Freemen C u r t i s , lawyer i n Boston and Sew Xork, A s s i s t a n t Secretary of the Treasury, f i r s t counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank o f Hew York, are to be found i n the Treasury f i l e s for 1909-1913* &n& incorporated i n the e a r l y f i l e s of th© Hev Tork Federal Reserve Bank. A l l p r i v a t e papers ere s e i d by h i s widow (Mrs* Eleanor C u r t i s , 120 East 30 S t r e e t , N.2.C.) t o have been destroyed* A two volume meaoir of h i s l i f e was recorded by Mr. Curtis for the Oral History Project o f Columbia U n i v e r s i t y . Some f i f t y pages from t&ese memoirs, dealing with Mr. Curtis 1 experience v i t h Federal Reserve l e g i s l a t i o n i n 1913 and e s General Counsel, Deputy Governor and Secretary of the Federal Reserve Bfcnk o f Hew Xork during i t s f i r s t f i v e y e a r s , have been photostatted f o r the Committee* two copies are i n Committee f i l e « » Literary r i g h t s i n th© unpublished memoirs of Mr. Curti» are reserved to Mrs. Curtis during her l i f e t i m e . They are understood t o revert to Columbia University a f t e r her death. See notes on Committee's career cerd o f Mr. Curtis Jumeg Freeman Curtis - 2Biographical Rote 1878, Aug. 16 Born, Manchester, Mass. 1899 A»B., Harvard 1903 LL.B., Herverd Lav School 1903-06 Practiced law with Storey, thorndike, Palsser tnd Thayer, Boston 1906-09 Assistant attorney general of Massachusetts 1909 Assistant d i s t r i c t attorney of Suffolk County, Mass. 1909-13 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1913 At request of certain Nev York bankers, ^r^fted an &1 ternstlYe to Glass-Ovfen B i l l 1912, Sov. 26 Married IMBNI Beatrice Merri&ifi (3 children) 19U-19 Counsel and Deputy Governor, Federal Reserve Bank of Sev lork 1919-47 Practiced l e v in He* York City 1933, S#pt. 8! Married Eleanor Munroft Green 1947-52 Counsel to former firm, newly n&m&d Patterson, Belknap and Webb 1952, Hov. 15 Died Author oft The fe&nlacences pf Jeaea Freemen Curtly, 2 v o l a . , 361 pp. typed, Columbia Oral History Research Project* 195l« 1 copy (bound) in possession of Mrs. Eleanor Curtis 2 copies (unbound) in Special Collections Dept*, Butler Librery, Columbia University, H&v York See mio's Who in A f r i c a , 1952/53, vol. 27, Marquis
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