Curtin, Jeremiah, House - Greendale, WI - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

Text on the marker reads:

"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.

Street address: 8685 W Grange Ave Greendale, WI USA 53129 County / Borough / Parish: Milwaukee Year listed: 1972 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1825-1849 Historic function: Domestic: Single Dwelling Current function: Vacant/Not In Use Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Privately owned?: Not Listed Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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