Draft:E. W. B. Curry

state legislator info and cite?

Elmer Washington Bryant Curry and Elmer W. B. Curry should link here

Elmer Washington Bryant Curry (March 23, 1871-June 19, 1930) was a Baptist minister, teacher, school founder, newspaper publisher, and state legislator in Ohio. He founded Curry Normal and Industrial Institute.Urbana Junior High School students have written about him.

He was born in Delaware, Ohio. He studied at Delaware High School and Ohio Wesleyan University.

Martha Fouse, who had been enslaved, donated $2,000 to the school. The school was at 325 E. Water Street in Urbana, Ohio.

Curry established the Informer in 1897.

He wrote A Story of the Curry Institute, Urbana, Ohio.

In 2019 a street in Delaware, Ohio was named in his honor.