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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

  [566-567]

       WILLIAM CURTIS, Captain of the "James Beard," is a native of Canada,
    and was born on the St. Lawrence River, February 1, 1830; he grew up in
    Canada, and worked for Davenport on the ferry between here and Sarnia,
    and was afterward for ten years in the employ of Capt. MOFFAT.  He came
    to Port Huron in 1857, and since then has resided here; for the past
    fifteen years has had command of vessels and tugs on the river and
    lakes.  Capt. CURTIS was united in marriage June 11, 1854, to Miss LUCY
    A. COY, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of ANSEL B. COY, one of
    the earliest Indian traders in St. Paul, Minn.; they have one daughter,
    Mrs. FRED STARKWEATHER.

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