Bio: Torrison, Nicholas Casper “Cap” – Colorful Character
Transcriber Stan

Surnames: Johnson, Krause, Tonn, McTrillion

----Source: Olson Family Scrapbook

Nicholas Casper Torrison, who changed his name to Nicholas Casper McTrillion was one of the colorful characters of early Curtiss. People knew him as "Cap". In the summer he operated a white washing service for the farmers. Cap was a friendly storyteller, he was known to do much reading and constantly was quoting from Shakespeare.

Cap could fix anything, which he proved in his job as a gunsmith and a millwright at the Curtiss Manufacturing Co. His home was in the building behind Tonn's Tavern.

Nicholas Casper sent an invention idea to the Navy Department during the war. He thought he had discovered a way to aid submarines when they submerged. Because of the fervor the war prompted, many other people were trying to patent inventions, his was returned unused. Cap also invented a contraption he called an engine moistener for automobiles.