City: Butler
CURTIS, Finley P., farmer and merchant; born in Caldwell Co., N. C., May 21, 1841; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Hezekiah and Celia (Coffey) CURTIS; father was a farmer and trader; paternal grandparents Samuel and Sallie (Cotrell) CURTIS, maternal grandparents William and Anna (Boone) COFFEY; his maternal grandmother was the grandniece of Daniel Boone; received common school education; served a s private in C. S. A. during the civil war, was wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; came to Tenn. Feb. 1872, went into mercantile business and has devoted his life to merchandise, farming and stock trading; built the first house in the town of Butler, Tenn., in the year 1874; married Selma F. ROSENBLOTT May 21, 1885; Democrat; formerly Postmaster Butler, Tenn. for several years; member of the Baptist church.
