Boyhood Home of Jeremiah Curtin Historical Marker
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N 42° 56.683 W 088° 01.332
16T E 416607 N 4755182
Boyhood Home of Jeremiah Curtin Historical Marker at 8685 W Grange Ave in Greendale, WI
Waymark Code: WM2216
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 08/22/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member frankhj
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"BOYHOOD HOME OF
JEREMIAH CURTIN (1835-1906)

  Born in Detroit of Irish immigrant parents, Curtin came to Milwaukee in 1837 to join his mother's family the Furlongs and settle on a farm in Greenfield. In the 1840's the Curtins moved into this typically Irish stone house described in Curtin's Memoirs. After his father's death Jeremiah persevered in his love for learning and languages and graduated from Harvard College in 1863. His command of Russian won him a position in the U.S. Legation in St. Petersburg in 1864, thus launching his forty-year world-wide career as linguist, translator (Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis), ethnologist, folklorist, and diplomat. He died and was buried at his wife's Vermont home in Bristol.

Erected 1973
The Shamrock Club of Wisconsin, Inc.
Milwaukee County Historical Society
County: Milwaukee

Location: Building

MarkerID: 196
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