Richard Holman Curtis

Richard Holman Curtis

Assistant Chief of Police

Richard H. CurtisRichard Holman Curtis was born in 1843 in Kentucky. In 1851 his parents brought their family to San Bernardino by oxen team, when he was only seven years old.

In 1905 Mr. Curtis was one of the original members of the current San Bernardino Police Department, where he was appointed the department’s first assistant chief of police. After being with the department for several years, Assistant Chief Curtis retired and became a school teacher and truant officer for the local school district and spent his summers in the Lytle Creek Recreation Area as a fire warden.

Mr. Curtis died in 1924 at 81 years of age. He is buried next to Mrs. Curtis in San Bernardino’s Pioneer Cemetery.