This was originally posted here. I am grateful to Nancy Pratt Melton, Sacramento County Coordinator of the Sacramento CAGenWeb, for transcribing it.
From: Sacramento County Biographies, 1880.
CURTIS, WM., farmer and dairyman; lives two and a-half miles from Sacramento, his Post Office; his parents, John T. and Mary B. Curtis, came to America about 1830; William, the subject of this notice, was born August 11, 1831, in Watertown, Massachusetts; came to California in 1852 via the Isthmus of Panama; was shipwrecked near Acapulco, at the time was on board the North America; on his arrival in the State he settled on the place where he now resides, where he has given his attention to farming and dairy business; owns five hundred and thirty acres of valuable agricultural land; married Miss Susie W. Potter January 1, 1862; she was born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts; her parents came to California when she was ten years of age; Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have had four children---William Roland, born July 4, 1863, Carrie M., born September 13, 1865, Frederick P., born November 30, 1870, Alice Louisa, born February 20, 1876; they have lost one child. A view of his place is given on another page. (Here).

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