Thomas Curtis

    Thomas Curtis, of Center Township, was born near Yorkshire, England, in 1792, and immigrated to this country in 1810; removed to Dearborn County in 1824, and settled in center Township on the farm that his son, Joseph D. Curtis, subsequently lived on. He was a man of extraordinary gifts. Early in life he connected himself with the Baptist Church, and in the year 1826 was ordained to the work of the ministry, and continued to labor until the time of his death, which occurred in 1843. He was a man possessed of great power as a pulpit orator, and there are many citizens of the present day who will remember his power; a man who will ever be remembered for his many acts of charity, and of all his labors in the church. He never made any charge or received any recompense, and no man in his day possessed more power and influence for good with the early pioneers, who had learned to honor him for the many noble traits of his character.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.