Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Curry, W. E. September 9, 1857 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

W. E. CURRY,
an enterprising young business man, and the present assistant freight agent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Curry Station, is a son of Robert and
Nancy (Stifler) Curry, and was born in Frankstown township, Blair county,
Pennsylvania, September 9, 1857. James Curry (paternal grandfather) came from
Pittsburg, in the year 1843, to Frankstown, where he died in 1869. He was a
farmer by occupation, a republican in politics, and a Presbyterian in
religious faith and church membership. He was thrice married, and reared a
family of fifteen children. By his first wife, Agnes Patterson, he had nine
children: Hugh, Henry, Elizabeth, George, Abraham, Jane, John, William, and
Robert. His second wife, Jane Stewart, bore him three children: Laura,
Margaret, and Harvey. By his third wife, Elizabeth Price, he had three
children: James, Laura, and Mary. Robert Curry, the sixth son, and the father
of the subject of this sketch, was born in Pittsburg, in 1833, and was
employed on different railroads for several years. He then came to
Hollidaysburg, and afterward removed to Frankstown township, where he was
engaged in farming (except eight years spent in Wisconsin) until his death,
which occurred November 30, 1888. During the late civil war he enlisted in
the 50th Wisconsin infantry volunteers, and served in the northwest. Robert
Curry was a republican in politics, and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran
church, and married Nancy Stifler, who now resides in Martinsburg. Mr. and
Mrs. Curry reared a family of five children, two sons and three daughters: W.
E., Harry B., Annie, Jennie, and Junia. Mrs. Curry was a daughter of Joseph
Stifler, of Canoe Creek, this county, who was born near Loop Gap, and who
passed the latter part of his life at Canoe Creek, Frankstown township.
Joseph Stifler was a farmer, a member of the German Baptist church, and a
republican in politics, and had served as postmaster at Canoe Creek for
twenty-five years. He married and reared a family of eleven children:
William, Harry, Jacob, George, Abraham, Sylvester, Mrs. Nancy Curry, Jane,
Sarah, Esther, and Susan.
    W. E. Curry was reared in Frankstown township and in the state of
Wisconsin, and received a good common school education. Leaving Wisconsin, he
returned to Blair county, where he was engaged in business at Hollidaysburg,
until 1883. In that year he removed to Curryville, where he has served ever
since as assistant freight agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr.
Curry owns a good residence at Curryville, is a stanch republican in
politics, and has been a member of the Reformed church for several years. He
is a man of good business ability, noted for promptness and reliability, and
has rendered good satisfaction to his company and the public.
    On November 29, 1883, Mr. Curry was united in marriage with Ella Burket,
of Curryville. Their union has been blessed with one child, a daughter, named
Jessie Fern, who was born December 12, 1885.

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