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Cal., was born at Pella. On the 12th day of March, 1863, at Knoxville, Iowa, Mr. Curtis was admitted to the bar, Hon. William Loughridge being the presiding judge of the court and John B. Hamilton its clerk.
Immediately on his admission to the bar, Mr. Curtis became a partner of his father in the practice of law under the firm name of Curtis & Curtis. In 1863-64 Mr. Curtis was a member of the city council of Pella.
On the 12th day of April, 1864, the Curtis families in company with the families of John B. Hamilton, N. P. Earp, Dr. James A. Rousseau and a number of others, left Marion county with horse, mule and ox teams for the Pacific coast, and after encountering innumerable hardships and dangers--being on several occasions attacked by Indians and their stock stampeded--reached San Bernardino, Cal., on the 19th day of December, 1864. And since that date San Bernardino has been and still is the home of William Jesse Curtis. The history of his life in California is another story.
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ROBERT B. WARREN
ROBERT B. WARREN was born in Tennessee in the year 1829. He came to Iowa with his father's family in 1841, settling first in Lee county. He moved to Mahaska county in 1843. He and his father, Dr. J. L. Warren, built what was known as the Warren mill, six miles northeast of Pella on the Skunk river, in 1846. This mill was burned down in 1850 and was rebuilt. In about 1882 this mill was again burned down, but was never rebuilt. He lived on his farm surrounding the mill until 1891, when he removed with his family to Des Moines, Iowa, where he resided until the time of his death in 1906.
While living in Mahaska county he was elected to the State Legislature in 1881, and served in the Nineteenth General Assembly. He was a member of the Pioneer Law Makers' Association at the time of his death.
S. F. PROUTY was born January 17, 1854, at Delaware, Ohio. He came with his father to Knoxville, Iowa, in 1855 and moved with his father to a farm in Clay township in 1858. After completing the public schools he entered the Central University in 1870 and graduated in 1877 as the valedictorian of his class. In 1876 he took the first prize in oratory in the college. He took the first prize in oratory in the State Oratorical Contest held in Cedar Rapids in the fall of 1876. He represented the state of Iowa in the Interstate Oratorical Contest held at Madison, Wis., in 1877, and won second prize. Immediately after his graduation in 1877 he was elected to the chair of Latin in the Central University of Iowa and continued to occupy that position for four years.
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HON. S. F. PROUTY