Edwin Burr Curtiss was an attorney, and the president and a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.

Biography

He was born on July 14, 1852, and he had a brother, Julian Wheeler Curtiss

Julian Wheeler Curtiss

Julian Wheeler Curtiss, was president of the Spalding sports equipment company.-Biography:He visited London, and there he learned golf. He returned to the United States with his clubs and golf balls and started the first manufacture of golf equipment in the United States...

. Edwin graduated from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 and formed the firm of Cunningham, Curtiss & Welsh of San Francisco. On March 2, 1897 with his brother, Julian Wheeler Curtiss

Julian Wheeler Curtiss

Julian Wheeler Curtiss, was president of the Spalding sports equipment company.-Biography:He visited London, and there he learned golf. He returned to the United States with his clubs and golf balls and started the first manufacture of golf equipment in the United States...

, and others, they started the Fairfield County Golf Club in Greenwich, Connecticut

Greenwich, Connecticut

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. By 1900 and at least through 1908, he was a vice president of the American Booksellers Association

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. He retired from the law in 1908 and was a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.  He was married to Virginia Henry. Edwin Burr Curtiss died on March 30, 1928. His widow went on to marry August Heckscher

August Heckscher

-Biography:Born in Hamburg, Germany, Heckscher emigrated to the United States in 1867. He initially worked in his cousin Richard Heckscher's coal mining operation as a laborer, studying English at night. Several years later he formed a partnership with his cousin under the name of Richard Heckscher...

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