CURRY, EDWARD RUFUS (1858-1930)

CURRY, EDWARD RUFUS, Baptist minister, Newcastle field, 1881-82; b. Windsor, N.S., 15 Nov 1858, s/o Elisha Curry and Mary Ann Dill; m. 1883, Laura C. Clinch, of Musquash, N.B.; d. Bozeman, Mont., 18 Jul 1930.

Edward R. Curry was educated at Horton Academy and Acadia University, where he took a BA in 1881. Shortly after graduating he came to the Miramichi as a licentiate to preach in the Newcastle church, as well as at Whitneyville and Lower Derby. On 27 November 1881 he was in attendance at the dedication of the new church at Lower Derby, on which construction had begun in 1880. He was ordained in January 1882, and he remained until July of that year. He then left to continue his theological studies at the Baptist Union Seminary in Morgan Park, Illinois (BD 1885).

Curry did not return to Canada. He held pastorates in several states before settling permanently in Montana in 1919. He was the full-time superintendent of Baptist missions for that state during the six years before his death, which occurred at age seventy-one, a month after he was injured in a highway accident. He and his wife, Laura C. Clinch, had three daughters and a son.