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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Romaine J. CURTISS, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet; was born in Richland Co., Ohio,
Oct. 1, 1840; at the age of 16 years, he entered Hillsdale College, Mich., and after leaving 
there attended one course of medical lectures at Buffalo Medical College; in 1862, he entered 
the Union army as Hospital Steward of the 123d Ohio Vols., and in April; 1863, was appointed 
a Medical Cadet in the regular army; served on the hospital-boat which, during the siege of 
Vicksburg conveyed the wounded up the river to Memphis and St. Louis, and was afterward 
transferred to the General Hospital at Cincinnati; in 1864, he graduated and received his 
degree of M. D. from the Ohio Medical College, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. 
Navy, serving till the close of the war; he then located in Erie Co., N. Y., where he 
practiced medicine seven years, during which time he pursued a medical course at the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College, graduating from that institution in March, 1868; from Erie Co. he 
came to Joliet in 1873; he is a member of the Erie County Medical Society, of the Will County 
Medical Society, and also a corresponding member of the Boston Gynecological Society. He was 
married Nov. 29, 1870, to Miss Sarah A. BEAL, of Erie Co., N. Y.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.