Curtis H. Pettit

He attended Oberlin College, and was a bookkeeper in the Forest City Bank of Cleveland, Ohio.

[citation needed] Pettit moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was an employee of C. G. Hussey & Company, an early iron and steel firm.

Pettit initially opened a bank and real estate office on Bridge Square in Minneapolis.

He was a member of the firm of Ankeny, Robinson & Pettit, which operated a sawmill at Saint Anthony Falls.

He was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Hennepin County (Districts 26 and 29) from 1873 until 1877 and from 1886 until 1889, where he sponsored liquor control legislation, was a member of the board of trustees of the Washburn A Mill "Mill Disaster Relief Fund of Minneapolis in 1878", He was the assignee of Norman B. Harwood of the bankrupt N. B. Harwood & Company.

[citation needed] In 1880, Pettit was a member of the Hennepin County, Fifth Congressional District and state central committees of the Republican Party.