(12 June 1839-29 July 1929), mining man. (date of birth 12 June 1840 also found) Born in Lancaster Township, GC. In 1859, when he was twenty, he went to Potsdam, N.Y., where for two years he trained as a blacksmith. He came to the Upper Peninsula area of Michigan in 1862, and thereafter his career seems to have been wholly or principally in mining. Among his other involvements with mining and mining properties, he opened the Curry mine in the Menominee range and for some years operated or managed the Norrie mine in the Gogebic range. He was described at the time of his death as “one of the oldest and most picturesque figures in the history of iron ore mining in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.” In 1875-1876, as a Democrat, he was a representative from Marquette County to the Michigan State legislature. In 1886, he was defeated when he ran for lt.-gov. of Michigan. He was a member in 1899 of the Michigan National Democratic State Central Committee. William Jennings Bryan, three times a candidate for the presidency of the United States, is said to have been “for many years a close personal friend of Mr. Curry.” Curry died at Ironwood, Mich., aged 90. He had been married. (two children surviving him) He was a Mason. For Ironwood, see James Wood.

Glengarry News 9 Aug. 1929 (from Duluth Herald) (QF) * Michigan Biographies: Vol. I: A-K (1924) 216 * voting 1886 candidacy: Official Directory and Legislative Manual of the State of Michigan for the Years 1887-8 (1887)