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James Freeman C u r t i s COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Register of Papers Processed: MA Date: 10/25/55 JAMES FREEMAN CURTIS (1378 - 1952) The working correspondence and memoranda of James Freemen Curtis, lawyer in Boston and New York, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, first counsel of tne Federal Reserve Bank offlewYork, are to be found in the Treasury files for 1909-1913, and incorporated in the early files of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. All private papers are said by his widow (Mrs. Eleanor Curtis, 120 East 30 Street, N.Y.C.) to have been destroyed. A two volume memoir of his life was recorded by Mr. Curtis for the Oral History Project of Columbia University. Some fifty pages from these memoirs, dealing with Mr. Curtis' experience with Federal Reserve legislation in 1913 and as General Counsel, Deputy Governor and Secretary of the Federal Reserve Bank oftievYork during its first five years, have been photostatted for the Committee. Two copies are in Committee files. Literary rights in the unpublished memoirs of Mr. Curtis are reserved to Mrs. Curtis during her lifetime. Tney are understood to revert to Columbia University after her death. See notes on Committee's career card of Mr. Curtis James Freeman Curtis II - 2 Biographical Note 1878, Aug. 16 Born, Manchester, Mass. 1399 A.B., Harvard 1903 LL.B., Harvard Law School 1903-06 Practiced law with Storey, Thorndike, Palmer and Theyer, Boston 1906-09 Assistant attorney general of Massachusetts 1909 Assistant district attorney of Suffolk County, Mass, 1909-13 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1913 At request of certain New York bankers, drafted an alternative to Ulass-Owen Bill 1912, Nov. 26 Married Leura Beatrice Merriam (3 children) 19U-19 Counsel and Deputy Governor, Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1919-47 Practiced law in New York City 1933, Sept. 25 Married Eleanor Munroe Ureen 1947-52 Counsel to former firm, newly named Patterson, Belknep and Webb 1952, Nov. 15 Died Author of: The Reminiscences of James Freeman Curtis. 2 vols., 361 pp. typed. Columbia Oral History Research Project. 1951. 1 copy (bound) in possession of ivirs. Eleanor Curtis 2 copies (unbound) in Special Collections Dept., Butler Library, Columbia University, New iork See "Who's "Who in America, 1952/53, vol. 27, Marquis
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