The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1915-06-10
THEODORE KANOuSE CURRY

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Theodore X. Curry was born al
Boscobcl, Wisconsin, January 4th,
1876, and died at St. Paul, Mime
sofa, June 1st, 1915, aged thirty
nine years, four months and twen-
ty-eight days.
When at the age of seven years,
his parents, Seth ID. Curry and
Kate Murley Curry moved from
their old home in Wisconsin and
settled in Ellsbury township,
Barnes county, OH what is now
known as tho Curry homestead.
Here, Theodore at an early age
commenced thc active duties of
life, assisting very materially in The
activities which transformed the
prairie farmstead, into fertile fields
of ripcning grain.
He was educated in The rural
schools near the farm house and
at the Valley City Normal prepared
for teaching, which calling he fol-
lowed for some time. In 1898 he
was an assistant in The Office of
County Auditor at Shcrbrooke, and
in The fall of 1902, commenced the
work OF PRIMER in the Office of The
Steele County Tribune, at Shcr-
brooke where he prepared himself
for the newspaper publishing bust
ness, In 1903, after iiuy;aa !,eyn
employed for time in The office
Of The Hope Pioneer, he assisted in
establishing the Binford Times, be-
coming its manager and shortly
afterwards, its publisher and pro-
prictor.
On November Goth, 1908, he was
Joined in marriage to Olclia Bor-
gcrson, who survives him. To this
union were born four children,
Florence, aged 10 years; Hazel,
aged S years; Seth Donald, aged
E years, and Theodore Kanousc, Jr.,
aged three weeks respectively.
In 1908, he disposed of The Bin
ford Times and moved his family
to Bowman County, this State.
where he filed on a homestead near
Buffalo Springs. In November,
l9l2, he was elected as a Progress
sivc Republican to the thirteenth
Legislative Assembly, as a member
OF The House of Representatives for
The ihirIy-ninth district, which con-
sisted of the counties of Bowman
and Billings.
During the session he served up
on important committees; was The
author Of several bills which be-
came laws. and was very cnthus-
iastic supporter of the Women's
Suffrage bills, S. B. No. s and S.
B. No. 157, which passed at that
session. He also was d strong
worker for The complete initiative
referendum and recall measure,
which if enacted would have been
in the interest of the whole peo-
pie.
In 1914 Mr.. Curry published the
Scranton Register for a period of
one year. He had worked on the
Bowman County Citizen from time
TO time previous to this. In Janu-
ary, 1915, he moved to Hope, where.
he was under contract TO enter the
life insurance business, but his
rapidly changing condition of
health prevented his taking up the
work.
Every resource of experience and
skill of local physicians having
been exhausted without avail, he
was taken to ST. Paul TO consult
specialists, but they were power
less to stay the hand of death, Mr..
Curry having cancerous growth
in the intestines. Surrounded by
his aged father and mother, his
sister, Mrs. Libbic Philip of Min
neapolis, and the flowers he loved
SO well, even recognizing in them
the handiwork Divine, quietly and
peacefully came the end.
Mr.. Curry is survived by his
. wife, Otelia, and four children;
father and mother; brothers, Frank
E. of Finley; Randall L., of Lu-