Curtis, George William

George William Curtis was a leading author and journalist who edited the influential magazine Harper's Weekly for a number of years beginning during the Civil War. Born into a wealthy New England family, Curtis traveled widely as a youth and enjoyed unique experiences in nineteenth-century communes and with leading Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau. Before the war, he also wrote extensively for the popular New York Tribune. He later became a columnist for several magazines, eventually settling into a leading position at Harper's. Curtis was generally a loyal Republican until his disgust over the corruption of the Reconstruction era drove him into a more independent position. He died in 1892. (By Matthew Pinsker)
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    Full name
    George William Curtis
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Family
    James Burrill Curtis (brother)
    Occupation
    Journalist
    Writer or Artist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Government
    Grant Administration (1869-77)
    Local government
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