| LC control no. | no 90000250 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866 |
| Variant(s) | Curtis, Sam'l R. (Samuel Ryan), 1805-1866 Curtis, Samuel R. (Samuel Ryan), 1805-1866 |
| Other standard no. | Q197539 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Iowa |
| Birth date | 1805-02-03 |
| Death date | 1866-12-26 |
| Place of birth | Champlain (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Council Bluffs (Iowa) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House |
| Found in | His Engineer's report no. 1, 1849: p. 17 (signed, Sam'l R. Curtis, ch'f eng'r.) DAB (Curtis, Samuel Ryan; b. 1805; d. 1866) Report of the president and engineer of the Fort Wayne, Lacon and Platte Valley Air Line Railroad Company, 1854: p. 17 (Samuel R. Curtiss) Union General, 2023: CIP t.p. (Samuel Ryan Curtis) galley (born on Feb. 3, 1805 in Champlain, New York; graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1831; Colonel of the Third Ohio Volunteers in the Mexican War; Major General in the Civil War; his military leadership won victory at Pea Ridge in 1862 and Westport in 1864; before the war he was a civil engineer and a prime mover of the transcontinental railroad; elected three times to the House of Representatives from Iowa; participated in peacemaking efforts with Indians on the northern Great Plains; he died on Dec. 26, 1866) |
| Associated language | eng |
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