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John B Curtis

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Entrepreneur
Died
Jun 13, 1897
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
Maine
About
Famous as the first person to market and commercially produce chewing gum, Curtis made the product from spruce tree resin. He and his father eventually formed the Curtis & Son company, which manufactured nearly two thousand packages of chewing gum daily.
Family
He and his brother and sister grew up in Maine as the children of John and Mary Curtis. In the late 1870s, he married Alice Bacon.

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