Edwin Burr Curtiss (July 14, 1852 – March 30, 1928)[1] was an American attorney, bookseller, and a director of A. G. Spalding Bros.
[2] His younger brother was Julian Wheeler Curtiss, president of the Spalding sports equipment company.
From 1667 to 1686, he represented Stratford in the General Court and in 1672, he served as one of six commissioners with the governor John Winthrop the Younger, the deputy governor, and assistants as a War Council against the Dutch in New York, and was distinguished for bravery in King Philip's War.
The firm was a wholesale stationers and booksellers, blank book manufacturers, printers, and lithographers headquartered in San Francisco, Curtiss was based primarily in New York City.
[11] After the death of his first wife, he remarried to Virginia Henry (1875–1941), who was born in Vienna and educated in England.