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 Jeremiah Curtin House
N 42° 56.683 W 088° 01.332
16T E 416607 N 4755182
Jeremiah Curtin House at 8685 W Grange Ave, Greendale, WI
Waymark Code: WM232M
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 08/27/2007
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Text on the marker reads:
"BOYHOOD
HOME OF
JEREMIAH CURTIN (1835-1906)
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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.
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Erected 1973
The Shamrock Club of Wisconsin, Inc.
Milwaukee County Historical Society
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