Edwin Burr Curtiss

Edwin Burr Curtiss (July 14, 1852 – March 30, 1928) His younger brother was Julian Wheeler Curtiss, president of the Spalding sports equipment company.

His maternal grandparents were Cyrus H. Beardsley and Maria (née Burr) Beardsley.

Career After graduation from law school, he practiced law in New York City for two years before forming the firm of Cunningham, Curtiss & Welsh in 1878. The firm was a wholesale stationers and booksellers, blank book manufacturers, printers, and lithographers headquartered in San Francisco, Curtiss was based primarily in New York City. In 1892, together with his brother and others, he started the Fairfield County Golf Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.

By 1900 and at least through 1908, he was a vice president of the American Booksellers Association. He retired from the law in 1908 and was a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.

Personal life Curtiss was twice married. His first marriage was to Carrie A. Case, daughter of Joseph S. Case of New York and the sister of his brother's wife, Mary Louise Case.

After the death of his first wife, he remarried to Virginia Henry (1875–1941), who was born in Vienna and educated in England. Curtiss commissioned the architects Carrère and Hastings, who had also designed the original clubhouse for the Greenwich Country Club, to build him a house on North Street in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Curtiss died at his residence in Mountain Lake, Florida on March 30, 1928. He was buried at the Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. After his death, his widow remarried to August Heckscher, the German-born capitalist and philanthropist.