Charles J. Kurth

Charles Justus Kurth (October 23, 1862 – September 28, 1896) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life Kurth was born on October 23, 1862, in Brooklyn, New York.

Kurth attended Public School No. 3 in Brooklyn, the Royal College at Brandenburgh, Prussia, and Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and had a law office at 375-379 Fulton Street. He also had a law office at 200 Montague Street, and by the time he died, he practiced law in the Germania bank building at Fulton Street. While young, he studied law in the law firm Place, Nelson & Place.

Kurth died in Seney Hospital on September 28, 1896. His funeral was conducted at his house by Rev. Lewis Edwin Pease, pastor of the Church of Our Father, First Universalist Church. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.