CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM
\kˈɜːtɪs], \kˈɜːtɪs], \k_ˈɜː_t_ɪ_s]\
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(1824-1892), was in early life a member of the famous Brook Farm community, a European traveling correspondent of the New York Tribune, and an editor of Putnam's Monthly. His later reputation rests on four forms of achievement: as an eloquent and cultured lyceum lecturer and platform orator; as the author of several books, including "Nile Notes," "Lotus Eating," " Prue and I," "Trumps," "Potiphar Papers," etc.; as an editor of Harper's Weekly and the writer of "Easy Chair" of Harper's Magazine and as a politician. He was a noted delegate in the Republican National Conventions of 1860, 1880 and 1884. He was identified with civil service reform from the start, and was by President Grant appointed in 1871 a commissioner for the purpose of drawing up rules. The National Civil Service Reform League was largely his work.
By John Franklin Jameson
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