Jeremiah curtin biography

Jeremiah curtin biography

1838]; b. 6 Sept. 1835 in Detroit, Michigan, to Irish parents; spent his early years on a farm in Greenfield, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; ed. Milwaukee University, and afterwards at Harvard, contrary to family advice (matric. 1859; aetat 24; grad.

1863); knew Charles A. Dana and others such as Lowell at Harvard; and read Law and studied under the folklorist F. J. Child; also worked for U.S. Sanitary Commission in this period and studied Slavic languages; moved in New York on graduation; served as secretary to Cassius M.

Clay, chief of American legation at St. Petersburg 1864-69, with whom he was in lasting dispute arising from his return to America in Jan. 1868 - when Clay assumed him to have conveyed prejudicial views to William H. Seward, resulting in Lincoln’s denying Clay the ministry of war; in a letter of Jan.

1869, Clay called him an ‘Jesuit Irishman’ (see note);