Curtis Noble Douglas
Curtis Noble Douglas (May 28, 1856 Watertown, Jefferson County, New
York – February 9, 1919) was an American businessman and politician
from New York.
[edit]Life
He attended Brooklyn Collegiate
and Polytechnic Institute from 1864 to 1870, and John C. Overheisus
Classical School from 1871 to 1873. He graduated B.A. from Rochester
University in 1877. Then he became secretary of his father, an
extensive land owner in Jefferson County, and supervised a variety
of business operations until 1880. He then pursued a teaching and
literary career, becoming headmaster of Betts Academy in Stamford,
Connecticut, and then assistant headmaster of J. H. Massis College
Preparatory School in New York City. In 1882, he established his own
college preparatory school there. Upon his marriage, he abandoned
teaching, and instead engaged with his father-in-law in the lumber
business in Albany, New York.
Douglas was a member of the New
York State Assembly (Albany Co., 4th D.) in 1894. His seat was
contested by Republican Amos J. Ablett, and the Committee on
Elections shortly before the end of the session reported in favour of
Ablett, but no action was taken by the Assembly.
Douglas was
a member of the New York State Senate (29th D.) in 1899 and 1900.
Douglas was appointed on November 6, 1912, by his brother-in-law,
Gov. John Alden Dix, to the Public Service Commission, and remained
in office until March 1914. The office carried an annual salary of
$15,000, one of the highest salaries for State officers in New York.
Family
Born in Watertown, New York, he was the son of John
Pettit Douglas and Henrietta (Hughson) Douglas.
On 24th June 1886, he
married Nancy Sherman Thomson (1867–1927), and they had three children,
Kenneth Thomson, Dorothea and Gertrude Thomson. .
He was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in
Menands.
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