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CLINTON JAMES CURTIS
CURTIS, CLINTON JAMES,
President and Manager of the Los Angeles Dock and Terminal Company Long Beach,
Cal. He was born at Winona, Minnesota,
August 21, 1870. Herman E. Curtis was his father and his mother was Mary M.
Camp. On April 17, 1901, he married Lulu M. Kimberly at Redlands, Cal. There
are three children, Caleb Camp, John Kimberly and Helen Kimberly Curtis.
Mr.
Curtis was educated at Phillips’ Academy, Andover, Mass., which he attended
from 1887 to 1890, graduating in the latter year. He next entered Yale
University, in which college he was a member of the class of 1894. Illness
compelled his withdrawal during his sophomore year.
He
went to California in the spring of 1893, and settled at Redlands, to
recuperate and interest himself in growing oranges. Between the years 1897 and
1905 he engaged in orange shipping from that district. In 1897 he became owner
of the West American Fruit Company of that city and brought that corporation
into the foremost ranks as an orange shipping concern. He became a director in
the California Citrus Association.
In
January, 1906, he sold his interests in the orange shipping business, resigned
from the California Citrus Association, and accepted his present position with
the Los Angeles dock and Terminal Company. Since that time he has had the
presidency and managership of that corporation and
his work in Southern California in the interest of that company is widely
known.
He
still retains certain of his old interests at Redlands, where he is a director
in the Redlands National Bank and the Union Savings Bank.
Mr.
Curtis is a member of the University Club of Redlands and of the Long Beach Camber of Commerce and president of Virginia Country Club
of Long Beach.
Transcribed
11-13-09 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 350, International News
Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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