A member and administrator of the Freewill Baptist congregation in New England, Curtis was one the founders of several mission schools established in the Shenandoah Valley to educated freed slaves and their children after the Civil War. Curtis was also instrumental in the founding of Storer College in Harpers Ferry.
United States Navy Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick from Morgantown, W. Va.
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undated
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Chadwick was born and raised in Morgantown. After graduating from the Monongalia Academy, Chadwick entered the U. S. Naval Academy at the outbreak of the Civil War. A decorated hero during the Spanish-American War, Chadwick was prominent in the naval reform movement of the post-Civil War era.
