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James F. Curtis
James Freeman Curtis II (1825–1914), 49er, Vigilante leader in San Francisco, its first Chief of Police, officer in the California militia and Volunteers in the American Civil War.
== 49er ==
James Freeman Curtis was born December 19, 1825, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father died in a train accident in 1839. Not much is known about his father, except he was a midshipman on the in the War of 1812.
Curtis went to sea and in 1849 sailed around Cape Horn, and settled in San Francisco. In the 1850s, he was a leading member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance and was a member of the Society of California Pioneers.〔( THE CALIFORNIA PIONEERS.; A REUNION AT LONG BRANCH. CELEBRATION AT LONG BRANCH OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION A COMPLIMENTARY HOP TO GEN. JOHN A. SUTTER. New York Times, Wednesday, September 9, 1877, Page 2 )〕 He was also an active member of the California Militia and in 1854, was elected First Lieutenant of the California Guard, Light Battery, the oldest military company in the state organized in 1849.〔( The California State Military Museum, California Militia and National Guard Unit Histories, First California Guard )〕 Curtis was the first to hold the office of chief of the San Francisco Police Department with his election to the office November 4, 1856, which he held until 1858.〔( Massachusetts Historical Society; Curtis-Stevenson Family Papers )〕〔( San Francisco Police Department, Chiefs of the SFPD )〕
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