i m Jh^ %^ Class C^Su Book __5 5-3 ,£_ fapyiightN" l.Qo ^ COPYRIGHT Dp»OSIT. SOLOMON STURGES AND HIS DESCENDANTS o^ivoid > ni n-iAM: odfi .J5L Solomon Sturges ^t. about 04. From a Photograph taken in Chicago by Fassett, about 1860 SOLOMON STURGES AND HIS DESCENDANTS A Memoir and a Genealogy COMPILED BY EBENEZER BUCKINGHAM THE GRAFTON PRESS GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHERS NEW YORK MCMVII I LIBRARY of OON37:^3s1 Two Copies Krtei\. XXt. Wo 8 OOP^ B. Copyright igo-j by THE GRAFTON PRESS CONTENTS PAGE Acknowledgement 9 Memoir of Solomon Sturges I. His ancestry 13 II. His early life 23 III. His later life 33 Recollections of Lucy Hale Sturges by Kate Sturges Benton 45 Genealogy of the Descendants of Solomon Sturges . 55 Index gl Genealogical Tables I. Ancestors of Solomon Sturges 22 II. Ancestors of Lucy Hale Sturges 52 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Solomon Sturges, set. about 64 — From a photograph taken in Chicago by Fassett, about 1860 Frontispiece Sarah Perry Sturges, set. about 75 — From the portrait painted toward the end of her life 20 Solomon Sturges, set. about 39 — From the portrait painted about 1835, in the possession of Mrs. Buckingham Sturges — The window in the background affords a gUmpse of the old mill and wooden bridge across the Muskingum at Zanesville, Ohio, and the " dug road " under the bluff on the Putnam side of the river 26 ^ Lucy Hale Sturges, set. about 35 — From the portrait painted about 1835, in the possession of Mrs. Bucking- ham Sturges 30 ^ Solomon Sturges — From the marble bust by Hiram Pow- ers, in the possession of Mrs. Buckingham Sturges ... 32 ^ The Residence of Solomon Sturges at the northeast cor- ner of Pine and Huron streets, Chicago — This building was burned in the great Chicago fire of 1871 36 Solomon and Lucy Hale Sturges — From a daguerreo- type taken about 1855 40 Lucy Hale Sturges, set. about 56 — From the portrait by Pine, in the possession of Mrs. Benton 46 ^ 7 8 List of Illustrations PAGE The Presbyterian Church at Putnam, Ohio — From an engraving made from a photograph taken before changes were made in the building which materially alter its ap- pearance 48 The Residence of Solomon Sturges at Putnam, Ohio . 50 Solomon Sturges, set. about 60 — From the portrait by Healy, in the possession of Mrs. Benton 58 The Nine Children of Solomon and Lucy Hale Stur- ges — From a photograph taken in Chicago, about 1868 . 62 The Sturges Monument in Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanes- ville, Ohio 68 Monument erected in Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville, Ohio, by Solomon Sturges, to the memory of his ancestors 72 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The compiler desires to thank the several members of the Stur- ges family, and others, who have kindly furnished him with in- formation. And in particular he wishes to express his grateful appreciation of the charming and sympathetic sketch of Mrs. Lucy Hale Sturges contributed by her daughter, Mrs. Kate Sturges Benton; and his deep obhgation to Mr. Charles Mathews Sturges for his cordial co-operation and efficient aid in gathering the mate- rial together, and to Mr. Frederick W. Gookin for his invaluable services in preparing the manuscript and seeing the book through the press. To Mr. James Buckingham especial thanks are due for the tables of the ancestors of Solomon and Lucy Hale Sturges. MEMOIR OF SOLOMON STURGES MEMOIR OF SOLOMON STURGES HIS ANCESTRY Solomon Sturges was born April 21, 1796, in Fairfield, Connec- ticut, where his ancestors had lived for five generations. They were farmers of the sturdy New England type; upright, industrious, frugal. God-fearing and law-abiding. John Sturges, the first of the family in Fairfield, was living there in 1660, when he bought land in the town as noted later in these pages, and it is quite pos- sible that his residence there may have long antedated that pur- chase. Owing to the destruction of many of the ancient records the exact date may never be determined, but the probabilities would seem to indicate that if he were not one of the little group of set- tlers by whom Fairfield was founded in 1639, he was among the very early comers there. According to the family tradition, John Sturges was bom in 1624, probably in England. Nothing is known with certainty as to his parentage. Full records showing his English extraction are said to have been in the hands of his great-great-grandson. Judge Jonathan Sturges ^ of Fairfield, and to have been destroyed, with 1 Judge Sturges was born in Fairfield, August 23, 1740; graduated from Yale College, 1759; member of Revolutionary Committee of Public Safety for Connecti- cut; delegate from Connecticut to the Colonial Congress in 1774; representative from Connecticut in the U. S. Congress from 1789 to 1792; judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut from 1792 to 1805; LL.D. Yale College, 1806; died in Fair- field, October 4, 1819. He was descended from John Sturges through his eldest son Jonathan,2 who married Susannah Banks and had Jonathan,3 who married 13 14 Solomon Sturges other family papers, when the Judge's home was burned by the British troops in 1779. It has been surmised that John Sturges was a son of Edward Sturgis, or Sturges,^ eldest son of Philip Sturgis of Faxton, Northamptonshire, who em'grated to New England in or about 1634, in which year he settled in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where he resided until 1639, when he removed to Yarmouth, Cape Cod. He had a large family, but owing to deficiencies in the early records it is uncertain whether the list of his children, twelve in num- ber, some of whom were born in England, is complete. The suppo- sition that John Sturges o Fairfield was his son, must, however, be dismissed as untenable if the tradition that John was bom in 1624 is accurate, for Edward had a son of the same name who was bom on April 10 of that year. It is therefore probable that if Edward and John were kinsmen, the relationship between them was that of cousin, or perhaps that of uncle and nephew, rather than that of father and son. In the year 1660, John Sturges purchased the homestead of Richard Fowles in Fairfield, which appears to have been located on the northwest side of the highway leading into Mill Plain. He was made a freeman on May 14, 1669. Later in the same year he was appointed Selectman. His wife was Deborah Barlow, daugh- ter of John Barlow, one of the most prominent of the early settlers in Fairfield. No record of the marriage has been found, so that the date and locality of its solemnization remain undetermined, but, from the traditional ages of the children born of the union, it would seem probable that it took place at a date prior at least to 1650. Although John Barlow, strangely enough as it now seems, ^ was not made a freeman until May 14, 1669, when his name Sarah Osborne and had Samuel * who married, 1st, his cousin Elizabeth Sturges, daughter of David,3 and 2d, Ann Burr, the Judge's mother. Samuel Sturges' elder brother Jonathan* married Jerusha Thompson; their daughter Sarah married Lothrop Lewis in 1727, and had Deborah Lewis, born in 1742, who became the wife of Judge Sturges. 1 The name appears to have been spelled both ways indifferently in the early seventeenth century. 2 The explanation may be that he had not become a member of the church until that year. In the early New England settlements none but church members were accorded full rights of citizenship. His Ancestry 15 heads the hst of those adniitted, followed by that of his son-in-law, John Sturges, he appears to have been a resident of the town be- fore 1653, in which year he sold his lot on Ludlow Square, ad- joining the Roger Ludlow homestead, and settled on the plain running northwest of Ludlow Square and Concord Field, which, in his honor was called "Barlow's Plain." In his will, dated March 28, 1674, he disposed of what was then regarded as a large estate, dividing it between his son and five daughters, Deb- orah, wife of John Sturges, being named among the latter. John Sturges died in the year 1700, aged, so runs the family tradition, about 76. In his will, dated March 4, 169f, he gave to his son Jonathan, his homestead, his sword, and various parcels of land. To his son Joseph he gave his fowling piece, his long gun, and several parcels of land; to his son John, his little gun; to his daughter Deborah, wife of James Redfield, several parcels of land and his negro woman Jenny; to his grandson Christopher Sturges 51. ; to his son-in-law Richard Straten 5s., and to said Straten's five children by his daughter Sarah, 5l. to be equally divided between them out of his movable estate; to his daughter Abigail, wife of Simon Couch, his negro boy Jack. The rest of his movable estate he divided between his two daughters Deborah and Abigail. To his absent son Thomas, "if he ever returned again," he gave 60/. out of the rest of his children's property. From this instrument, therefore, it appears that John and Deb- orah (Barlow) Sturges had at least seven ^ children, viz. : I. Jonathan Sturges, II. Joseph Sturges, III. John Sturges, IV. Thomas Sturges, V. Deborah Sturges, who married James Redfield, VI. Sarah Sturges, who married Richard Stratton, VII. Abigail Sturges, who married Simon Couch. 1 In "The Dimon Family," page 31, No. 42, it is stated that a "Mary Sturges, daughter of John Sturges" was married in 1719 to Ebenezer Bradley, but that statement involves such discrepancies in dates as would seem to make it substan- tially impossible that she could have been a daughter of John and Deborah (Bar- 16 Solomon Sturges Jonathan Sturges, the eldest son, married Susannah Banks, daughter of John Banks. According to the family tradition Jona- than's birth occurred in 1650; and that of Joseph in or about 1653. Little is known about Joseph Sturges, except that all his life was spent upon his farm in Fairfield, where he died in 1728, aged about 75. He was married twice. His first wife, who ap- pears to have been the mother of all of his eleven children,^ was Sarah Judson, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Foote) Judson. After her death he took as a second helpmeet, Mary Sherwood, widow of Thomas Morehouse. She survived him, dying in 1746 aged about seventy-seven years. The fifth son of Joseph and Sarah (Judson) Sturges, was Solo- mon, who was baptized in Fairfield, May 15, 1698, and was proba- bly bom a little earher in the same year.^ On March 8, 172|, he married his second cousin Abigail Bradley, who was the daugh- ter, born in 1706, of Daniel and Abigail (Jackson) Bradley of Fairfield, and granddaughter of Francis Bradley, whose wife, Ruth Barlow, was a sister of Deborah Barlow, who married John Sturges. By her Solomon had three sons, Hezekiah, Joseph, and Judson, and a daughter, Esther, who married William Dimon. low) Sturges, though she may have been the daughter of their son John — number ii in the list here given — who married, 1st, Mary Gardiner, and ^d, Abigail Wheeler. 1 In the " Complete Lineage of the Sturges Families," by Alonzo Walton Sturges, these children are named as follows: I. Christopher Sturges II. Joseph Sturges III. David Sturges, b. 1696 IV. Jeremiah Sturges V. Solomon Sturges, b. 1698 VI. Sarah S. Sturges, b. 1699 VII. Esther L. Sturges, b. 1700 VIII. Benjamin Sturges, b. 1701 IX. Abigail O. Sturges, b. 1702 X. Jane Sturges, b. 1703 XI. Deborah Sturges, b. 1708 2 If the family tradition that he was eighty-sbc at the time of his death in 1779 is correct, it fixes the date of his birth in 1693. But against this is the fact that his four elder brothers were baptized together on May 24, 1696, and if Solomon were then three years old it seems highly probable that his parents would have had him baptized with the others. His Ancestry 17 Solomon Sturges was described by his grandchildren as a man of ardent temperament, a hater of all forms of tyranny and oppres- sion, alert in mind and body, and notably "spry" in his move- ments. Living in a thriving community, surrounded by numerous relatives, his days passed quietly enough until the outbreak of the war of the revolution, by which he, in common with the colon- ists in general, was stirred to the depths. He was too old for cam- paigning, but all of his sons took an active part in the struggle; Hezekiah was a captain, Joseph was captured by the British and died on a prison ship in New York, Judson was killed in an en- counter with tories on Long Island Sound. Solomon himself met with a tragic fate when on July 7, 1779, the British troops under General Tryon landed at Fairfield and pillaged and burned the town. The account of this brutal affair, as related by Bancroft,^ gives such a graphic picture of the Fairfield of that day that it may well find a place in these pages. " A pillaging expedition, sent to punish the patriotism of Con- necticut, was intrusted to Tryon. . . . On the afternoon of the seventh, the expedition landed near Fairfield. The village, a century and a quarter old, situated near the water, with a lovely country for its background, contained all that was best in a New England community: a moral, well-educated, industrious people; modest affluence; well-ordered homes; many freeholders as heads of families; all of unmixed lineage, speaking the language of the English Bible. Early Puritanism had smoothed its rugged fea- tures under the influence of a region so cheerful and benign; and an Episcopal church, that stood by the side of the larger meeting- house, proved their toleration. A parish so prospering, with in- habitants so cultivated, had not in that day its parallel in England, The husbandmen who came together were too few to withstand the unforeseen onslaught. The Hessians were the first who were let loose to plunder, and every dwelling was given up to be stripped. Just before the sun went down, the firing of houses began, and was kept up through the night with little opposition, amidst the vain * cries of distressed women and helpless children.' Early the next 1 " History of America," Ed. 1876, vol. vi, pp. 209-210. 18 Solomon Sturges morning, the conflagration was made general. When at the return of night the retreat was sounded, the rear-guard, composed of Germans, set in flames the meeting-house and every private habi- tation that till then had escaped." Still vigorous and active in spite of his years, when he heard that the British were disembarking Solomon Sturges mounted his horse and set oflF toward the beach, probably to attempt to rescue his cattle, though perhaps for the purpose indicated in the follow- ing account of the tragedy that followed. This account was written in his later years by Solomon's great-grandson and namesake, the subject of this memoir, and embodies the family tradition about the affair as related during the writer's boyhood by those who were eyewitnesses of the British attack. "My father in my early days, often repeated the story of the dreadful day and more dreadful night that the enemy had posses- sion of the town. My great-grandfather Solomon Sturges was too old to fight in the ranks of our small army; but in concert with another old man (both on horseback) endeavoured to make him- self useful by acting as a scout. Upon hearing the alarm gun he at once mounted his old bay mare and proceeded toward the beach where it was said the British were landing their troops from their ships of war. . . . There was then, and I presume there is yet, an offset or turn in the road leading to the Sound, a few hundred yards south of the old Fairfield burying ground. My great-grand- father and his companion had made this turn and had advanced but two or three rods down the beach lane when they discovered through the fog the red coats of the British soldiers close upon them. They wheeled their horses and as they did so were fired at by the front platoon of the column, and my great-grandfather received a musket ball in his back. He was able, however, to remain on his horse until he had passed the Court House, and his companion who being unhurt was enabled to ride ahead, saw him carefully get from his old mare on and over the fence and (being no doubt entirely unable to walk) creep upon his hands and knees to a bunch of elder bushes by the roadside. The precise spot was pointed out to me by my father, in my early hfe; it was between the jail His Ancestry 19 (then upon the corner east of the big pond) and the academy. The old gentleman companion then rode rapidly to my grand- father's house and reported to the excited household these facts. While he was yet speaking the old bay mare came to the house. The saddle was almost covered with blood. The tale it told, though mute, was expressive. All was confusion, and all were filled with alarm. Other places had been burnt and all knew too well what the fate of Fairfield was to be. My grandfather and several of his older sons had before this seized their guns and gone to the rendezvous of their company. Two carts were hastily loaded with the most valuable household goods and the women and young- est children being placed in the carts or walking by the side, the cavalcade moved off toward Greenfield Hill. . . . The Hessians applied the torch to both of my grandfathers' houses. . . . The enemy, if I remember aright, held possession of the town but little over twenty-four hours. Our forces being rapidly increased by the coming in of the militia from the surrounding towns were busy popping away from behind stone fences, cedar bushes or anything that afforded concealment or protection. As soon as the enemy commenced a retreat toward their ships my grand- father and his sons were on hand to search for 'grandfather Solomon ' as he was of course called by my father and his brothers. They knew where to look and found him in that thicket of elder bushes, dead, yes of course, with one bullet hole and six or seven severe bayonet stabs. He was without doubt found by those in- fernal Hessians, with life yet not quite extinct, and finished with the bayonet." ^ The members of the Sturges family were large sufferers by the British raid on Fairfield. Their pecuniary losses have been esti- mated at five hundred pounds sterling,^ in those days a large sum in such a community. It is said that the invading troops had a merry feast in the house of Captain Hezekiah Sturges during the 1 See letter by Rev. Andrew Eliot of Fairfield, written at the time of this outrage, printed in Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections, Vol. Ill, Series I, and in " History of Fair- field County." 2 See " Complete Lineage of the Sturges Families," by Alonzo Walton Sturges. 20 Solomon Sturges night they spent on shore. When they left they set the dwelHng afire and it was burned to the ground. The next winter Hezekiah hauled timber and in the spring began to build anew. He put up the frame for a large house and finished it gradually as time and his means permitted. The kitchen ran the length of the house and above it was a room of equal dimensions, the use of which was accorded by him to the Episcopalians for public worship until they were able to rebuild their church which the " red coats " had destroyed. That courtesy illustrates a liberality in religious tolera- tion which has been characteristic of the Sturges blood, for Heze- kiah was, it is understood, of long descended Puritan beliefs, and the courtesy was extended at a day when in New England those of Puritan stock were often imbued with dislike and even hatred of the Church of England, identified in their minds with the persecu- tions to escape which their forefathers had fled to America. Hezekiah Sturges was born in Fairfield in 1726, and died there April 27, 1792, " in the 67th year of his age " says the inscription upon his tombstone. His wife, whom he married on November 21, 1751, was Abigail Dimon, who was born in Fairfield, February 1, 173f, and died there on November 21, 1803, the fifty-second anniversary of her wedding day. She was the daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Burr) Dimon of Fairfield, the granddaughter of Moses and Jane (Pinkney) Dimon of Fairfield, the great-granddaughter of Moses and Abigail (Ward) ^ Dimon of Fairfield, and the great- great-granddaughter of Thomas Dimon (or Dimond or Demman), mariner, of Pequonnock, now North Bridgeport. Through her mother Abigail was a descendant of John Barlow, and was, there- fore, her husband's first cousin. The Sturges and Dimon families were very closely interrelated. Sarah Dimon, Abigail's younger sister, married Hezekiah's brother Joseph Sturges, and her brother William Dimon married his sister, Esther Sturges. Hezekiah and Abigail (Dimon) Sturges had nine children : Ebene- zer, born August 8, 1752, was a sea captain, and died in Jamaica, of smallpox, December 25, 1795; Dimon, of whom more presently; 1 Abigail Ward was the daughter of Andrew and Hester, or Esther (Sherman) Ward of Fairfield. Sarah Perry Sturges Mt. about 75. From the Portrait painted toward the end of her Ufa His Ancestry 21 Hezekiah, bom November 24, 1756, died unmarried, December 16, 1839 ; Solomon, born February 10, 1759, died aged about forty years, was found dead in his berth on the arrival of his vessel in Boston ; Eunice, born July 31, 1761, who married Nathaniel Perry of Fair- field; Edward, born December 2, 1762 (or 1763), died August 25, 1826, and Samuel, born March 1, 1766, both of whom, as well as Hezekiah, lived in Fairfield; Abigail, born May 9, 1768, who mar- ried Allen Nichols of Fairfield; and Mary (or Polly), born Septem- ber 3, 1770, and died in New York city at a great old age, who married her kinsman. Captain Barnabas Lothrop Sturges of South- port, and was the mother of Jonathan Sturges, the wealthy New York merchant. Dimon Sturges, the second of these children, was born in Fair- field, October 29, 1754, and after a long and for the most part an uneventful hfe, died there January 16, 1829. He married Sarah Perry daughter of Ebenezer and Martha (Sherwood) Perry of Fairfield. "My father and mother," their son Solomon wrote many years afterward, " as I always understood, had agreed about their life partnership before the breaking out of the revolutionary war, but after the commencement of hostilities, their marriage was postponed for brighter prospects and they were not married until a short time before Fairfield was burned. My grandfather Sturges was rendered poor by losses suffered during the revolutionary struggle. My grandfather Perry had not suffered as much, as the Hessians and Tories did not get quite as far north as his residence in their work of destruction. It was as much as both of them could well accomplish to build a house, barn, etc., for father and get the young couple fixed comfortably at housekeeping." Sarah (Perry) Sturges was bom in Fairfield, September 21, 1761, and died in Mansfield, Ohio, at the residence of her son Edward, May 7, 1846. Dimon and Sarah (Perry) Sturges had ten children all born in Fairfield: Mary (or Polly), the eldest, was born March 4, 1780, and died at the age of seven; Esther, the second daughter, was born January 24, 1782, and died, unmarried, in Putnam, Ohio, September 28, 1829; Eben Perry, the eldest son, was born Au- \ 22 Solomon Sturges gust 12, 1784, and died in Mansfield, Ohio, January 1, 1862; Sarah, the third daughter, was born December 4, 1786, was mar- ried March 31, 1812, to Ebenezer Buckingham of Putnam, Ohio, and died there April 9, 1815; Dimon, the second son, was born April 11, 1789, and was lost at sea, being swept from the deck of his vessel in a storm, on November 4, 1808; Mary, the fourth daughter, was born November 23, 1791, was married to Chester Welles of Putnam, Ohio, and died there September 27, 1858; Hezekiah, the third son, was born January 3, 1794, and died in Putnam, Ohio, July 29, 1878; Solomon, the fourth son and the subject of this memoir, was bom April 21, 1796; Ameha, the fifth daughter, was bom November 5, 1799, was married to Austin A. Guthrie of Putnam, Ohio, and died there September 3, 1882; Edward, the fifth son and youngest child, was bom December 5, 1805, and died in Mansfield, Ohio, September 16, 1878. ph Sturges 1653; d. 1728 ih Judson iel Bradley, 1673 ;ail Jackson es Dimon, b. ct. 7, 1672; . Aug. 7. 1748 Pinkney 1 Butr orah Barlow haniel Perry 1652; d. 1682 ter Lyon hael Clagston Sept. 18, 1678 ■y Wakeman , July 23, 1710 luel Sherwood, • 172s 32 f John Sturges b. 1624; d. 1700 5 5 L Deborah Barlow J4 r Jeremiah Judson JS I Sarah Foote j6 f Francis Bradley, b. 1627 J7 I, Ruth Barlow, d. 1689 }8 r Joseph Jackson 1 39 [ Mary Godwin 40 r Moses Dimon b. 1642; d. 1684 ,, [ Abigail Ward -2 f Philip Pinkney .. r Nathaniel Burr 44 ' 66 f John Barlow 67 [ Ann 68 r William Judson "I 69 L Grace 70 r Nathaniel Foote 71 I Elizabeth Deming 76 I }lenry Jackson 77 [ 78 r George Godwin 79 '[ 80 , Thomas Dimon 8. I 82 I Andrew Ward, d. 1665 ,j [ Hannah Goodyear 46 John Barlow ,y [ Abigail Lockwood Richard Perry, d. 1658 TT .. cu lAA 1 Kcv. J. Sherman Hester Sherman 166 J ^ j^^^. ^j^ ^g^^ 88 , John Burr 89 1 • Stedman 90 I Stephen Goodyear 9' I 9^ r John Barlow 9? t Ann 94 f Robert Lockwood 95 [ Susan St. John 49 CQ r Richard Lyon, d. 1678 51 52 S3 54 f Lieut. Joseph Wakeman nelius Hull 55 l Elizabeth Burr 56 f Thomas Sherwood, 1 b. 1637 57 [ Ann Turney 58 59 5o f Cornelius Hull d. Mar. 14, 1737 61 i Rebecca Jones, d. 1744 62 r Ezekiel Sanford •ah Sanford ). March 25, 1666 108 f Rev. Samuel Wakeman 109 i Hannah Goodyear no f Major John Burr iji [ Susan Filet 112 r Thomas Sherwood ,,3 t Alice 114 r Benjamin Turney ,15 i Mary ■ 120 r G'-orge Hull, d. Aug. i 22, 1614 121 [ Thomazin Mitchell 122 f Rev. John Jones 123 124 f Thomas Sanford 125 HO f Thomas Hull 241 !_ *48 ( Anthony Sanford »49 1 6? Rebecca Mickle CJENEALOGICAL lABLK OF THE ANCESTORS OF SOLOMON STURGES Compiled bv James Buckingham of Zanesville, Ohio U f John Slurges 15 I Joseph Sturees 6.1624:11.1700 b. 1653: a. 1728 HI Deborah Barlow S ( Solomon Sturges b. 1698 (perhaprf >693) d. July 7. 779 17 [ Sarah Juds^ Double the number before any n-Atni: and you ha Ibat of the father; aJd one to the doubled number ai you have that of the mother. ♦ [ Captain Hezekiah Sturges .( ra. Mar. 8. ,.724-f I li. , 1726 (I. Apr. 27, 1792 Polly Sturges b. Mar. 4, 1780 d. May 2, 1787 Esther Sturges b. Jan. 24, 1782 d. Sept. 28, 1829 Eben Perry Sturges b. Aug. 12, 1784 d. Jan, I, 1762 ni. 1st, Ainanda Bucking* ham m. 2d, Terusha Merrick Hale m. 3d, Ruth M, Tracy Sarah Sturges b. Dec. 4, 1786 d. Apr. 9, 1815 m. Ebcnezer Biickinghain nimon Sturges b. Apr. II, 1789 d. Nov. 4, 1 80S Mary Sturges b. Nov. 23, 1791 d. Sept. 27, 1858 m. Chester Welles Hezekiah Sturges b. Jail. 3, 1794 d. July 29, 1878 Solomon Sturges b. Apr. 21. 1795 d. 0.t. I.,, ,U.i .\melia Sturges b. Nov. 5, ,79 d. Sept. 3, 188 m. Austin A. ( Kdward .Sturges b. Dec. 10, 181 Sept. 16, 187 sept. 16, 1878 Mary Mattiie niiiioii Sturges b. Oct. 29, 1754 d. Jan. 16. 1829 .\bigail Dimon ';■ F'^b. I, 1732-3 d. Nov. 21, 1803 Ebcnezer Perry Sarah Perry b. Sept. 21, 1761 d. May 7, 1846 .Abigail Bradley 18 r Daniel Bradley, b. 1673 19 I .Abigail Jackson i4 I Jeremiah Judson i )S I .Sarah Footc }<> I Francis Bradley. \ b. 1627 !7 I Kuth Barlow, d. 16 )8 f Josciih Jackson !9 I Mary Godwin 40 M Dimon b. 1642: d. 1684 « f Moses Dimon, b. Oct. 7. 1672; I d. Aug. 7, 1748 41 [ Abigail Ward Ebenezer Dimon 1 b. , 1704 d. May 28, 1746 11 [ Jane Pinkney I .Mary Burr bap. Jan. 4, 1708 d. Sept. 12, 1766 Deborah Barlow ^j f Philip Pinkney .„ r .Nathaniel Burr .^j I Hannah Coodyear .,6 f John M.irlow .,7 ( Abigail I.ockwood f Joseph Perry ] ^8 [ Richard Perry, d. 1658 14 f Nathaniel Perry { I b. 1652; d. 1682 49 I 50 f Richard Lyon, d. 1678 »6 f Michael Clagston \ b. Sept. iS. 1678 5) I 65 r John Barlow 57 [ Ann 58 I William Judson 69 [ Grace - - - - 70 [ Nathaniel Foote 71 I Elizabeth Deming 75 , Henry J.ackson 77} 78 r Ceorge (Godwin 79 1 So J Thomas Dimon 81 I 8» I .Andrew Ward, d. 1665 8)1 Hester Sherman 166 J ^^"- J- Sherman 1 b. 1613; d. 1675 88 I John' Burr »9 ( Stcdman 90 I Stephen Coodyear 9.1 91 ( John Barlow 9! I Ann 94 I Robert Lockwood 95] Susan St. John el Sherwood , 1708 ■ 1784 Mary Wakeman Z7 I d. July 23, 1710 a8 f Samuel Sherwood, d. 1725 Cornelius Hull 14 f Lieut. Joseph Wakeman 55 I Elizabeth Burr 55 f Thomas Sherwood, 1 b. 1637 57 I Ann Turnev 59 60 ( Cornelius Hull d. Mar. 14, 1737 Sarah Sanford h. March 25, 1666 61 [ Rebecca Jones, d. 1744 61 r Ezekiel Sanford 6) I Reliccca Mickle 108 I Rev. Samuel Wakema 109 I, Hannah (ioodycar no f Major John Burr Hit Susan Filet 111 J Thomas Sherwood iij I .Mice — — 114 ( Benjamin Turney 115 I Mary ilo f r. orge Hull, d. Aug. \ 21, 1614 III L Thomazin Mitchell ilij Rev. John Jones '»i I 114 [ Thomas Sanford H° J Thomas Hull H. [ •^ I Anthony Sanford n HIS EARLY LIFE An old man's recollections of his boyhood, even if incomplete, or, it may be, inaccurate in all details, are usually faithful in their presentation of the outward aspect of the things recalled to memory. "My father's house," wrote Solomon Sturges toward the end of his life, " was nearly of square form. The kitchen was not only for cooking, but was used alternately as a kitchen and a dining room. There was an enormous chimney in the centre of the house, the whole west side of which was occupied by the kitchen, fireplace, and the oven at the north end of it. It has been over thirty years since I saw it, but I think the width of the fireplace was not less than eight feet. . . . When the neighbors came in on a winter evening, and I had been sent with the old ' grandfather tankard ' into the cellar to fill it with cider, after I had waited upon the circle ranged round the fire, I would take a seat upon a stool within one of the jambs of the fireplace, while my brother Hezekiah or Ed- ward would occupy the opposite corner. Then the exploits of the Revolutionary War would be rehearsed. All the men had participated in one battle or another; some fierce encounter by land or water. How many stories of skirmishes with the Tories that came over from Long Island in whale boats ! What one did not know or recollect another would. " My mother and elder sisters would be busy at various house- hold employments. When nothing more important was to be done the spinning wheels were brought forward and it was no un- common thing for three of them to be going at once. My mother 24 Solomon Sturges was a worker. She was an excellent housekeeper and she was as good as she was industrious. She was all softness to her children. She loved us so dearly that she could not bear to give us pain, and I have no doubt that her extreme tender-heartedness and maternal love saved me from many a deserved whipping. "My father kept a flock of sheep, the wool from which was manufactured in the family and furnished our winter clothing. Flax was a staple product, and its preparation and manufacture into linen was no small part of the winter employment of the house- hold. All the shirting and sheeting of the household was of linen, all the summer wear of the boys and much of that of the girls. Long checked aprons, made for use, were a common article of dress. My mother understood the art of colouring the fabrics made in the household, and occasionally a piece of carpeting was made. Breaking and dressing flax was a common employment, in the winter days, for my father and my elder brothers during my school days. . . . The common winter clothing of us boys was a warm grey coating, being a mixture of the black and white wool, and this was 'fulled' at Sherwood's Fulling Mill about half a mile from my father's house. One long piece of this fulled coating, and another of nice blue cloth, was yearly made for the use of my father and my brothers. When we had a surplus it was sold or bartered for something we wanted. Industry and frugality were the order of the day, and of all the days. Taxes must be paid, and money must be had for that purpose, and also for many other things. What little money was received from sales of the products of the farm, or household manufactures, was carefully husbanded." Eben Perry, the eldest of the boys, had left home at the age of fourteen, when Solomon was only two years old. Taking service on a merchantman owned by one of his relatives, he developed such aptitude and reliability that at sixteen he was first officer and before he was twenty-one he was master and half owner of the large schooner " Madisonia," equipped for transatlantic and South American commerce. By the time Solomon reached the age of twelve or thirteen, the question as to what should be his life pursuit was a subject for frequent family consultation, and finally His Early Life 25 it was decided that he should " learn the sea " with Eben. As a preparation for this — to quote his own words — his " district school education was finished up by the study of navigation and a year at the academy." In October, 1810, being then in his fifteenth year, he joined Eben in New York, and they set sail for George- town, D. C, whence they were to take a cargo for Lisbon. The voyage to Chesapeake Bay proved a rough one, and Solomon suffered so intensely from seasickness that before the mouth of the Potomac was reached his ardor for a seafaring career was much abated. And when, a few days later, Elisha WiUiams, a prosperous merchant of Georgetown, with whom Eben Sturges had business, was prepossessed by Solomon's appearance, and offered him a position in his counting room until Eben should return from across the Atlantic, and longer if, on better acquaint- ance, both parties should be satisfied, he accepted with alacrity, after consultation with his brother. He was taken into Mr. Wil- liams' household and was very kindly treated during the two years he remained in that employment. When war against England was declared in 1812, Mr. Williams retired from business, and Solomon, upon his recommendation, took a position as clerk in the grocery store of John Hersey at Georgetown. About this time he received word that his brother's vessel, the "Madisonia," on her return voyage from Pernambuco, had been captured by a British frigate, and that Eben was a prisoner in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Being deeply attached to his brother, this news distressed Solomon greatly. After suffering much hardship and passing through an attack of yellow fever, Eben was released upon parol and returned to the United States. As soon as he had regained sufficient strength to undertake the journey, he went to Ohio to visit his sister Sarah, who, on March 31, 1812, had been married to Ebenezer Buckingham, one of the Ohio pioneers, who was born in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and who had then, for several years, been located in Springfield (shortly afterward renamed as Putnam, and now a part of the city of Zanesville), near the head of navigation on the Muskingum river, where he was a prosperous merchant. The interior of the 26 Solomon Sturges state of Ohio was then for the most part an unbroken wilderness, traversed only by rough trails. Here and there was the rude begin- ning of a village, or the detached log cabin of some hardy pioneer; but, safety from Indian hostilities having at last become fairly assured, settlers were rapidly pouring in. Foreseeing the opportunities afforded by this new country, Eben decided to abandon the sea, and to make Ohio his home. Returning east, he formed a partnership with his kinsman, Buck- ingham Sherwood, and they bought a stock of merchandise which they transported in wagons to Zanesville, and thence, with great difficulty, north as far as Mansfield, en route to General Harrison's camp on the frontier. At the solicitation of the handful of settlers then in Mansfield, which is beautifully situated in a fertile region on almost the exact summit of the watershed between the Ohio river and Lake Erie, they were persuaded to stop there and to open a store. In this way did Eben chance to locate in Mansfield, where he spent the remainder of his days. The business prospered from the outset. Enterprising and energetic, he soon laid the foun^ dation of his fortune, and became one of the most influential men in northern central Ohio. A few years after he settled in Mans- field he brought his youngest brother Edward Sturges there and made him his partner, Mr. Sherwood retiring. The firm of E. P. & E. Sturges built up a large and profitable business, trading over an extended area in the progressively developing adjacent territory. During all of the many years it continued it bore an enviable repu- tation, and was one of the most highly respected mercantile houses in that section of the country.^ 1 Eben Perry Sturges died in Mansfield, January 1, 1862. He was married three times. By his first wife, Amanda Buckingham (born February 7, 1804; married August 15, 1824; died September 19, 1830), daughter of Stephen and Esther (Coo- ley) Buckingham, he had three sons; (1) Dimon Sturges, born October 21, 1825, died in Mansfield, March 18, 1900 — a merchant of that city; (2) Colonel Stephen Buckingham Sturges of Brooklyn, New York, who was born March 12, 1827, and died in Brooklyn, December 19, 1897; (3) Edward Sturges of Buffalo, and later of Geneva, New York, who was born February 1, 1829, and died in Canandaigua, New York, in November, 1899. By his second wife, Jerusha Merrick Hale (born September 19, 1797; married September 15, 1834; died April 25, 1847), daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Welles) Hale, Mr. Sturges had a son (4) Henry Hale Solomon Sturges Mt. about 39. From tlie Portrait painted about 1835, in the possession of Mrs. Buckingliam Sturges. The window in the backgi'ound affords a glimpse of the old mill and wooden bridge across the Muskingum at Zanesville, Ohio, and the "dug road" under the bluff on the Putnam side of the river His Early Life 27 When Washington was threatened with an attack by the British, Solomon Sturges joined a volunteer artillery company that was organized to aid in defending the cities of the District of Columbia, and for a short time was stationed at Fort Washington on the Poto- mac. Among his fellow privates in this service were George Peabody, afterward eminent as a banker and philanthropist, and Francis Key, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner." On the return of the company to Georgetown, Solomon found a letter from his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Buckingham, inviting him to come out to Ohio and enter his store as a clerk. This he decided to do and the journey was taken in the spring of 1814. His ac- count of it should be of interest to his descendants. " In May or June, 1814, I left Georgetown and took a stage, or what was then called a stage, for Pittsburgh, going by Chambers- burgh and Bedford. The road was exceedingly rough as it was years before the turnpike was constructed, and the journey was slow; but I was buoyant with hope and expectation. On arriving at Pittsburgh I found the Ohio river rather low and no boat ready to leave. I was anxious to go ahead, and finding at the tavern I had stopped at, two young men, one of whom wanted to go to Louisville, and the other to Cincinnati, we clubbed together and bought a skiff. We then busily set to work and fixed an awning over the skiff, so as to partially shelter us from the sun and from rain, and, procuring some provisions, we put out on the Ohio, upon our river voyage. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when we started, and we took alternate turns at rowing. Before morning it commenced raining, our hands became blistered, and on arriving at Wheeling we were a sorry looking set of young Sturges, born December 1, 1835, now living in Mansfield; and a daughter (5) Amanda Sturges, born January 18, 1840, who was married June 14, 1865, to Colonel Addison Augustus Hosmer of Washington, D. C. (born Oakdale, Massachusetts, February 28, 1833), son of Eben and Mary (Cheney) Hosmer. By his third wife, Ruth Maria Tracy whom he married in 1850, Mr. Sturges had no issue. Edward Sturges, the junior partner, died in Mansfield, September 16, 1878, in his seventy-third year. He married in Putnam, Ohio, July 5, 1837, Mary Sturges Mathews, daughter of Dr. Increase and Betsey (Levens) Mathews of Putnam, and was the father of Charles Mathews Sturges, who was born in Mansfield, May 8, 1838, and of five other sons and three daughters. 28 Solomon Sturges navigators. There we learned that a * Barge ' had just before left for Cincinnati, and notwithstanding our blistered hands we fol- lowed as hard as we could row, and to our great joy we overhauled her not many miles below, and the kind Frenchman who com- manded her permitted us to tie our skiff to his boat, and we took shelter under the roof of his comparatively large vessel. The 'Barge' was the boat in which the commerce of that period was carried on from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, and many, perhaps most of them, were owned and commanded by Frenchmen. Two trips a year from New Orleans to Pittsburgh and back were about their performance. They took up sugar, molasses, cotton, and groceries of various kinds, and took down whiskey, flour, bacon, pork, and other products of the western states and territories. We dried our clothes, and then went to sleep upon the Captain's buffalo robes which were hospitably spread for our comfort. "We had quite a good time on this Barge until we reached Marietta where I landed. I gave to my two companions my in- terest in the skiff and unconsumed stock of provisions and soon found my way to the store of Mr. D. Woodbridge who Mr. Buckingham had written me would assist me in getting some con- veyance to Springfield, as Putnam was then called. With his assistance a horse was hired, saddle bags borrowed, and a part of my scanty wardrobe was transferred to them from a not very large trunk which then contained my worldly possessions. I stayed until the next morning at quite a comfortable hotel upon the bank of the river, and after an early breakfast started for Springfield. The ride was rather a lonesome one, having no company. I had obtained the names of the places or taverns I should want to stop at, and on the following day, toward evening, arrived at Zanes- ville ^ and was ferried over the Muskingum to Springfield (now Putnam) which proved to be my home for so many years. My brother-in-law, Mr. Buckingham, and my sister Sarah, were ex- pecting me, and received me with open arms. I had not seen my 1 The accomplishment, in so short a time, of this journey of about eighty miles over a rough trail leading through a strange country, must be accounted a very creditable performance. His Early Life 29 sister since tlie fall of 1810, and Mr. Buckingham I had never seen before. I was made to feel at home at once, and after a day or two of rest, was installed in my situation as clerk, and soon found my place was no sinecure." In this environment Solomon was not long in giving evidence of unusual business ability. He had just entered upon his nineteenth year. By nature industrious, energetic and intellectually alert, and although yet so young, having these qualities already favor- ably developed by his years of residence in Georgetown under excellent influences, he found in his brother-in-law, who was a man of force and marked ability, just the one to give further im- petus and direction to his talents. The very next winter he was sent to Philadelphia to buy goods — a trust which well indicates the degree in which he had almost at once approved himself. It was a sad winter in Mr. Buckingham's household. His infant son John, born at the end of October, died on Christmas day; in Feb- ruary his son Ebenezer, aged fourteen months, passed away; and with the opening of spring came the hardest blow of all, in the death, on April 9, 1815, of liis beloved wife Sarah, Solomon Sturges' sister. Active work is the most potent healer of the bereaved, and in the busy young community where they lived, the stricken husband and brother were given little opportunity to nurse their grief. In the spring of 1816 Mr. Buckingham decided to take his clerk, Solomon Sturges, and his own younger brother, Alvah Buckingham, into partnership with him, giving each of them a quarter interest, and on April 6 of that year the firm of E. Buckingham, Jr., & Co. was formed. Ebenezer Buckingham, the senior partner, was then aged thirty-eight; his brother Alvah was thirteen years his junior; and Solomon Sturges still lacked fifteen days of being twenty years old. The location of Putnam in the midst of a fertile and rapidly developing section of the country, situated on the bank of a navi- gable river leading into the Ohio, then the great highway between Pittsburgh and the west and south, was, in the days before the advent of railway transportation, exceptionably favorable. From 30 Solomon Sturges the beginning the profits of the new firm were large. Its activities extended over a considerable extent of territory, and it soon became widely known and highly esteemed. In the spring of 1817, Solomon went to New Orleans with four flat boats laden with produce, and returned to Ohio by land. " It was then," he wrote in his reminiscences of his early life, " an un- broken wilderness from Lake Pontchartrain to the Tennessee river, and the trail, or bridle path, was not always easily kept. We were a little over thirty days performing the journey home, and glad enough was I when I arrived there." While in New Orleans he was among the enthusiastic throng that hailed the arrival at that city of the "Washington," the first steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, except a crude affair that made the down trip in 1811 but did not attempt a return voyage. In the autumn of the same year, having gone to Detroit to take funds to Governor Cass to pay off troops, he witnessed the arrival there of " Walk in the Water," the first steamboat to ply the waters of the great lakes. These journeys illustrate the active life led by the enterprising merchant in the "western country" at that period. In addition there were annual visits to the cities on the Atlantic seaboard, to buy goods. By Mr. Sturges these visits were continued through a long series of years and thus he was enabled to keep in close touch with his relatives in "the East," and to build up a considerable circle of friends and acquaintances there. Shortly after the formation of the new firm, Ebenezer Bucking- ham left the business in charge of his partners and journeyed to Glastonbury, Connecticut, where, on August 5, 1816, he married Eunice Hale, daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Welles) Hale, whose acquaintance he had made while she was in Zanesville visiting her cousin, the wife of Dr. Reed. Travel in the West was at that time a matter of difficulty and often of hardships. The return trip of the couple was made across the Allegheny mountains on horseback, there being then no roads for wagons. They were accompanied by the bride's younger sister, Anna Hale, who, in 1819, became the wife of Alvah Buckingham. In 1821, Lucy Hale, the youngest daughter of Benjamin and Lucy Hale Sturges yEt. about 35. From the Portrait painted about 1835, in tlie possession of Mrs. Buckingham Sturges His Early Life 31 Martha (Welles) Hale, made the journey from Connecticut to visit her two married sisters and other relatives hving in Putnam. Solomon Sturges appears early to have been attracted by her ad- mirable traits, but perhaps because his business took him so much away from home at that period (he was absent for a long while in 1821, making a voyage to New Orleans, and thence by sea to Phila- delphia, being stricken on shipboard by a fever by which he was prostrated for some weeks after arriving at his destination), more than a year seems to have elapsed before they became formally engaged. His own account of his engagement is as follows : " Lucy expected to return to her home in Connecticut in 1823, but before the time came I had made an agreement with her that my sister, who was visiting in Ohio, should return [to Connecticut] with her, and she was to return to Ohio with me as my bride. This was the most important bargain I ever made. We were married in August of that year, at her father's home on the banks of the Connecticut, and during the thirty-six years we lived together it was almost always sunshine in our household. Her cheerful, happy temperament, and kind, sympathetic heart always made my home pleasant; the magnetic influence she always imparted to it, always drew me so strongly that when called away by business, my thoughts would flit back, ' like the needle to the pole.' " Solomon Sttjkges From the Marble Bust by Hiram Powers Ill The nine yeftrs following Mr. Stui^ea' marriage werp years of vi ^ing prosperity. Then, in August, 18!^^ Hi... .... . _,. .} disturbed by the sudden death of his hi and partner, Ebenezer Buckingham, who lost his life by the falling of one of the spans of the very important bridge over the Muskin ■ gum, con^ ' T>. .- _. ^.jljj Zanesville, '' "*- ngthening of wliicb ag.i in that river be intending at the time the accident occurred. J ^i shock not only to hi commv''' '■- - ., • "He His judgment ve, and i attribute much « actions ^ u Mr. Buck' Milton B he deceased, was induced \n ~ Qrm. Heze- k:«.-- . . , , . ve from Fair- field to Ohio ; r. of their father in 1829, also became one of the par rtm. had an equal share. In 1843 Milton Bv ' ' " ' - in the firm was taken by Alvah's so. a. By this time various business enterprises throughout the western ;7*4 d. Apr. 12, 1778 Ann Shelton .1. May 26, 1763 S f Timothy Hale 1 b. — , 1692 I d. Aug. 9. 1784 9 I, .Sarah Frary d. Sept. 7, 1770 neniamin Hale b. July 22, I Jan. 30, 1729 I, Hannah Talcott b. Oct. 16. 1706 d. Feb. 6, 1796 Thomas Welles b. Feb. 14. 1692 d. May 14. '7^,S I! I Martha Pitkii 14 r Joseph Shelton * b. June 24. >65<; 16 f Thomas Hale b. . 1653 '. d. Dec. 23, 1723 m. Oct. 30, 1679 ' ^ Naomi Kilbourne b. . 1656 ■8 r Sat ii r Samuel Hale, b. 1615; d. 1693; m. 1640 H [ Mary Wells j4 c John Kilbourne, b. Sept. 29, J 1624: d. Apr. 9, 1703: m I "650 )S [ Naomi ; d. Oct. i, 1659 j6 I Elizur Frary 68 I Thomas Kilbourne. 1 i d. 1648 69 I Frances . d. 71 f Isaac Graves I I Sarah Boardman b. — , 1673 d. , 1734 ' I Lieut. Samuel Hale I b, -, 1645 I d. Nov. 18, 1711 J8J !9l Samuel Hale (see no. 32) Mary Wells Welles. Came to Salem, Mass. 1629; b. 1570; 1660 int. wid. John Dec. 28, 1715 d. Feb. 18, :7i5 .Sarah Hollister b. Oct. 25. 1676 d. Oct. 15, 171 5 i4 ( 0-apt. Samuel Welle: ] b. Apr. 13, 1660 \ d. Aug. 28. 173J I , m. June 20, 1683 15 [ t^uth Rice b. Sept. 24, 1658 d. Mar. 31, 1742 41 I Elizabeth Hollister, d. 44 f Samuel Talcott, b. 1635; d. 4S I Hannah Holyoke, b. Jur 1644; d. Feb. 2, 1678 46 f John Hollister, b. 1642 Nov. 24, 1711; m. Nov J 1667 47 L Sarah Goodrich, 48 f Capt. Samuel Welle Gov. Thorn; from Eng ^"Tan.'^' Elizabeth I Dunning John Hollister, first settlers field. Conn.; d. Apr., 1665 Joanna Treat, d. Dorothy Smith, d. Feb. 1670 Holyoke, d. Feb. 6, 174 r Richard Trea 17s [ Joanna . 176 ( John Talcott ^apt. aar See No. 49 I Elizabeth Hollister "H Nov. 20, ■657 :e No. 86 1640; d. Oct. John Hollister. Joanna Treat William Goodri Sarah Marvin, b. 1632; d. 1703 Gov. Thomas Welles Elizabeth Hunt John Hollister. See No. 86 Joanna Treat Eng., 1636; m. 1612; d. May 4, Prudence Stockton Williara Goodrich . Stillman Matthew Marvin, (1. 1680 Elizabeth . 1 Richard Treat Joanna • Hi/ John Talcott of '1 Colchester 154/ William Skinner ^64 I John Pynchon 1<>S Orchard John Pynchon . Jane Emjison 1600; 1604 16 f 'Villiam Pitkin S» I Hon. William Pitkin, b. 1636; d. Dec. 15, 1694; d. Apr. 5, 1723 S! ' Hannah C, May ■>. '7'6 aniel Shelton Merchant of London d. . '728 m. Apr. 4. 1692 29 L jyiiahelli Welles )0 ' Jiohn Hollister I b. Aug. — . 166; I d. July 9. '74* S4 I Caleb Stanley, b. 1642; d J May IS, 1710; m. 1665 Si I Hannah Cowles. d. 1690 59 I Elizabeth Holli: 60 f John Holli! 104 I Roger Pitkin, of Norwich, \ Eng. 105 t . -; J »■» f George Goodwin 106' Osias Goodwin, b, 1596; d. J \ Apr., 1683 11) I |;;i|en Smith 108 r Timothy Stanley 109 1 110 1^ John Cowles, d, Sept., 1677 116 f Gov. Thomas Welles 117 I Elizabeth Hunt 118 j John Hollister. Set No. 86 119 I Joanna Treat 110 J John Hollister. See No. 86 111 I Joanna Treat ,„ r William Goodrich. See No. 61 1 Sarah Goodrich 111 1 Sarah Marvin «J8J Richard Treat *J9 I Joanna Ml J Richard Treat »4I I Joanna »44/ William Goodrich **' ' Stillman *•*/ Matthew Marvin **'' Elizabeth . DESCENDANTS OF SOLOMON STURGES DESCENDANTS OF SOLOMON STURGES FIRST GENERATION 1. SOLOMON ^ STURGES of Putnam (now a part of Zanes- ville), Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois, fourth son of Dimon and Sarah (Perry) Sturges of Fairfield, Connecticut, was born in Fairfield, April 21, 1796, and died in Zanesville, Ohio, October 14, 1864. He married in Glastonbury, Connecticut, August 14, 1823, Lucy Hale, fifth and youngest daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Welles) Hale of that town. She was born in Glastonbury, May 22, 1800, and died in Granville, Ohio, July 25, 1859. Their children were: 2+ i William Sturges, b. May 27, 1824 3+ ii Sakah Sturges, b. Sept. 23, 1826 4+ iii Shelton Sturges, b. Aug. 7, 1828 5+ iv Lucy Sturges, b. Aug. 15, 1831 6+ V Buckingham Sturges, b. June 4, 1833 7+ vi Albert Sturges, b. Nov. 5, 1835 8+ vii George Sturges, b. May 13, 1838 9+ viii Kate Sturges, b. July 9, 1840 10+ ix Frank Sturges, b. Oct. 10, 1842 SECOND GENERATION 2. WILLIAM 2 STURGES, eldest son of Solomon (1) and Lucy (Hale) Sturges, was born in Putnam, Ohio, May 27, 1824, and died in Owego, New York, November 12, 1894. When he arrived at the age of twenty-one, his father established him in 55 56 Solomon Sturges business on his own account, relinquishing in his favor, his interest in the store in Putnam, owned by him and Alvah Buckingham. At the same time Mr. Buckingham gave his interest to his eldest son, Benjamin Hale Buckingham, and thus the firm of Bucking- ham & Sturges was formed in the spring of 1845. Not long after another cousin, John Buckingham, son of Ebenezer and Eunice (Hale) Buckingham, was admitted to the partnership. William, who was ambitious and restless, soon became desirous of a wider field. In the course of a year or two he withdrew and removed to New York city, where, with John L. Adams, he established the house of Adams & Sturges, forwarding and commission merchants. He continued in this firm until 1853, when, an opportunity pre- senting itself to form a business connection with Rowland Ellis of Cincinnati, he sold his interest to his cousin, John Buckingham, who, in 1848, had also removed to New York. Ellis had the repu- tation of being a shrewd and successful financier. The banking houses of Ellis & Sturges at Cincinnati, and Sturges & Ellis at New York started under favorable auspices and for some years conducted business with great success, but in the panic of August, 1857, they were carried down and forced to suspend. Confident that their assets were more than ample to meet their liabilities, William began settling claims in full, but the shrinkage in values that followed the financial storm soon put an end to this, and it became apparent that they were hopelessly insolvent. From the effects of this disaster Wilham never fully recovered. He returned to his father's house in Putnam, and, after an interval of inactivity, became a clerk in the bank of Solomon Sturges & Co., in Zanesville. There he continued until early in 1859, when he removed to Chicago and took a position with the firm of Sturges, Buckingham & Co. When, in the latter part of 1860, his father established the banking house of Solomon Sturges & Sons, Wil- liam, though prevented by his outstanding liabilities from becom- ing one of the partners, and nominally relegated to the status of a clerk, took a leading part in the management, which, as his father's health failed, was largely left to his direction. After his father's re- tirement he occupied a similar position with the bank of Solomon Descendants of Solomon Sturges 57 Sturges' Sons until 1866, when its affairs were closed and its de- posit accounts turned over to the Northwestern National Bank. During the remainder of his life William was engaged in varied activities. From 1867 to 1870 he was employed by his brothers, Buckingham and Albert, to assist them in their enterprise of build- ing the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad. For two years William was the President of the company, and after- ward its Vice President. During this period his Chicago office was at the Burlington Warehouse, State and Sixteenth streets. One of his most important employments in later life was the raising of capital for the Capitol Freehold Land and Development Company, Limited — a corporation formed to take over from John V. Farwell of Chicago and his associates, an enormous body of land in Texas, acquired by them from that state in payment for building the State House at Austin. While upon this service William hved for several years in London. William Sturges was a man of broad sympathies and generous impulses. In 1853, when he was at the height of his prosperity, he gave $10,000 to the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, for the purchase of books as a beginning of a college library, upon the condition that the trustees should raise the sum of $15,000 for the erection of a library building. This condition was complied with and the building, now used as a chemical laboratory and class room, bears the name of Sturges Hall. Mr. Sturges married, 1st, in Zanesville, Ohio, March 23, 1847, Carohne Amelia Potwin, daughter of John Stoughton and Sophia (Marsh) Potwin, of Burlington, Vermont. She was born in New Jersey, November 5, 1827; died in Chicago, November 14, 1874; and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville. By her Mr. Sturges had no children. He married, 2d, in New York city, October 8, 1876, Bessie McLeod, who was bom in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 24, 1857, daughter of John D. and Mary (Lannon) McLeod, and by her had issue : 11-1- i Alberta Sturges, b. Sept. 17, 1877 12-1- ii HoLLiSTER Sturges, b. June 14, 1879 58 Solomon Sturges Mrs. Bessie McLeod Sturges was married, 2d, on September 9, 1895, to Francis H. Leggett of New York city, by whom she has one child: Francis Howard Leggett, bom in New York, Novem- ber 30, 1896. 3. SARAH 2 STURGES, eldest daughter of Solomon (1) and Lucy (Hale) Sturges, was born in Putnam, Ohio, September 23, 1826, and died in Zanesville, April 20, 1892. She hved all her life in Putnam, where she was married on August 8, 1848, by the Rev. Addison Kingsbury, to Charles Wolcott Potwin, a merchant and banker of Zanesville, son of John Stoughton and Sophia (Marsh) Potwin of Burlington, Vermont, and brother of Caroline Potwin, the first wife of Sarah's brother, William Sturges. Mr. Potwin was born in New York city, December 12, 1819, and died in Zanes- ville, July 9, 1889. Children : 13+ i Lucy Sturges Potwin, b. Nov. 16, 1849 14+ ii Julia Marsh Potwin, b. Sept. 26, 1851 15+ iii Cara Potwin, b. Nov. 18, 1855 16+ iv Charles Albert Potwin, b. June 10, 1858 17+ V Kate Benton Potwin, b. Jan. 12, 1862 4. SHELTON ^ STURGES, second son of Solomon (1) and Lucy (Hale) Sturges, was born in Putnam, Ohio, August 7, 1828, and died in Chicago, June 21, 1888. From 1850 until 1861 he lived on the farm at Duncan's Falls on the Muskingum river, nine miles below Zanesville, which his father gave him at the time of his marriage. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Shelton en- listed in the 24th Ohio volunteers, was chosen Captain of Com- pany B; was later promoted to be Major of the regiment; and, after a little more than a year of active service, he was honorably discharged in November, 1862. Returning to his farm, after hav- ing spent a short time in Chicago, he remained there until late in 1863 or early in the following year when he removed to Chicago, and for about a year and a half was one of the partners in the bank of Solomon Sturges' Sons. In 1865 he withdrew from that firm. Solomon Sturges Mt. about 60. From the Portrait by Healy, in the possession of Mrs. Benton <0i o < cc a ■"* 3 >- O o _D p CS h:; O* SiO Q cS ^ _o •< 'JB. U iz: _c o IS a S o _2 m -q a p^ 03 o a bD 'z O w "o K -C fl-l iJ as i ;. H fe !z ^ H w h Descendants of Solomon Sturges 63 29 iii Katy Benton Sturges, b. Aug. 7, 1869 30 iv Lily Benton Sturges, b, Sept. 21, 1871 7. ALBERT 2 STURGES, fourth son of Solomon (1) and Lucy (Hale) Sturges, was born in Putnam, Ohio, November 5, 1835, and died in Chicago, March 17, 1900. Arriving at the age of twenty-one, his father established him in business as proprietor of a flouring mill in Beverly, Ohio, on the Muskingum river, some forty miles below Zanesville. There he remained until 1859 when he removed to Chicago, to enter the service of Sturges, Buckingham & Co. A year later he became one of the partners of Solomon Sturges & Sons, with which firm and its successor, Solomon Sturges' Sons, he was actively connected until the business was closed in 1866. As related in the preceding sketch of Buckingham Sturges, Albert was connected with him at this period in estab- lishing a banking house at the Union Stock Yards, and later was his partner in the Burlington Warehouse, and in building the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad. Still later he devoted himself to the development of the San Felix mine, in the state of Sonora, Mexico, about twenty miles from the coast of the Gulf of California. While engaged in this enterprise he hved for a number of years at the mine, returning at intervals to visit his home and family. Albert Sturges married in Zanesville, Ohio, March 5, 1856, Eliza Graham, daughter of Benjamin and Katharine (Large) Graham.^ She was born in Zanesville, November 19, 1835; died in Chicago, July 17, 1887, and was interred in the cemetery at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Sturges had fifteen chil- dren, all born in Chicago : 31 i Kate Graham Sturges, b. Feb. 23, 1857; d. Mar. 30, 1863 32 ii Washington Graham Sturges, b. July 1, 1858 1 Benjamin Graham was born in Richmond, Virginia, December 10, 1807, and died May 20, 1880. His wife, Katharine Large, whom he married in Beavertown, Ohio, March 21, 1833, was born in Hocking county, Ohio, December 23, 1817, and died, October 17, 1903. 64 Solomon Sturges 33 iii Frank Hale Sturges, b. Aug. 19, 1859; d. Feb. 8, 1863 34 iv Albert Hale Sturges, b. Jan. 30; d. May 13, 1861 35 V Arthur Percy Sturges, b. Nov. 1, 1862; d. Feb. 8, 1863 36 vi Mary Delafield Sturges, b. Mar. 23, 1864 37+ vii Solomon Sturges, b. Oct. 18, 1865 38 viii Lucy Hale Sturges, b. Dec. 27, 1866; d. May 18, 1868 39 ix Harry Humphrey Sturges, b. Feb. 8; d. July 24, 1868 40 X Alletta Sturges, b. Sept. 18; d. Oct. 12, 1869 41 xi Theodore Sturges, b. and d. June 9, 1871 42 xii Flora Sturges, b. Nov. 15, 1872; d. Dec. 16, 1873 43 xiii Ida Sturges, b. Nov. 24; d. Nov. 28, 1873 44 xiv Paul Sturges, b. Jan. 7; d. Jan. 17, 1875 45 XV Dora Sturges, b. April 21; d. Dec. 30, 1876 8. GEORGE 2 STURGES, fifth son of Solomon (1) and Lucy (Hale) Sturges, was born in Putnam, Ohio, May 13, 1838, and died at "Snug Harbor," his summer residence in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, August 12, 1890. At the age of seventeen he came to Chicago with his father and took a position as clerk in the office of Sturges, Buckingham & Co. In this employment he continued about four years, until 1859, when, being ambitious to get into business on his own account, he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law Ebenezer Buckingham, and they leased the old Fulton elevator, located on the north bank of the Chicago river, westward from Rush street, and formed the firm of George Sturges & Co., warehousemen and buyers and shippers of grain. After about a year, Mr. Buckingham retired, and Mr. Sturges continued the business alone. He was successful from the outset, as, indeed, he was in all his undertakings. When the firm of Solomon Sturges' Sons was formed in 1863, to succeed Solomon Sturges & Sons (in which only Solomon, Buckingham and Albert were partners), George, together with Shelton and Frank, became partners and Descendants of Solomon Sturges 65 continued in that relation for something more than a year, when they withdrew, leaving Buckingham and Albert to continue. George and Shelton then co-operated with their cousin Stephen Buckingham Sturges, a banker of experience and sagacity, in founding the Northwestern National Bank of Chicago, which opened its doors on August 15, 1864, at 61 Dearborn street. Buck- ingham Sturges was the president, Stephen Buckingham Sturges the vice-president, and George Sturges, the cashier. After a few months, Buckingham retired from the presidency and was succeeded by Colonel Charles Granville Hammond, a gentleman of high personal and financial station in the community, then long identified with the management of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, and for a considerable period the general superintendent of its lines. Colonel Hammond's con- nection with the bank lasted only about a year. He then yielded the presidency to George Sturges. At or about the same time Stephen Buckingham Sturges resigned as vice-president and re- moved to Brooklyn, New York, where thenceforward he made his home; and John deKoven came into the bank as cashier. Tliis was at the beginning of the year 1867. The same year the office of the bank was removed to room No. 1 in the new building of the Chamber of Commerce, southeast corner of LaSalle and Washington streets. This building was destroyed in the great fire of 1871, and for a time thereafter, the bank was installed tem- porarily in Dr. Reuben Ludlam's residence on Wabash avenue near Twelfth street. An office was then rented in the Lind Block, near Randolph street bridge. This was occupied until the Cham- ber of Commerce was rebuilt, when the bank returned to its former location. In the spring of 1876, more commodious quarters were secured in the Reaper Block at the northeast corner of Washing- ton and Clark streets. These were occupied until May, 1888, when the growing business compelled another removal, this time to the Rookery Building, southeast corner of LaSalle and Adams streets. In May, 1872, Mr. deKoven severed his connection with the bank to become cashier of the Merchants National Bank of 66 Solomon Sturges Chicago, and on April 7, 1873, was succeeded as cashier of the Northwestern National Bank, by James Dwight Sturges, son of Hezekiah and Maria (Allen) Sturges. James, who had been the general bookkeeper in the bank for a short time when it was first organized, but had left to take a position with Lewis, Ham & Co., continued as cashier until June 7, 1883, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Frederick William Gookin, who held the office until the bank was consolidated with the Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago, in September, 1900. Under the exceptionally capable management of George Sturges the Northwestern National Bank won an enviable reputation in the financial world. He early developed ability of a high order. Prudent, sagacious and far-seeing, he steadily built up a fortune and a well-deserved reputation as a banker. He was the prime mover in the establishment of the Chicago Clearing House, and gave himself little rest until the former burdensome and hazardous method of daily settlements between the banks — involving as it did, deUveries of checks by each bank, through its messengers, to each of the others, and separate equalizations in each case, in currency — ^was swept away. To faciUtate the new order of things, he permitted the exchanges to be made, at first, in the office of the Northwestern National Bank, until a suitable room for the Clear- ing House could be secured. When, after the great Chicago fire, many of the banks in the city were in doubt as to the status of their bills receivable and uncertain as to the course to be pursued in dealing with their depositors, George Sturges for the Northwestern National Bank and Chauncey B. Blair for the Merchants National Bank boldly announced their intention of opening their doors and meeting all their liabilities on demand, whether the other banks did so or not. It required courage to take this stand at such a time, but it added much to the reputation of the two men, and the result amply justified the wisdom of the course they advocated. Again in 1873, when the banks were by the Chicago Clearing House Association, authorized and recommended to suspend currency payments, in view of the unsettled condition of financial affairs throughout the entire country, Mr. Sturges strenuously opposed Descendants of Solomon Sturges 67 what he beheved to be a mistaken and unwise policy. At his in- stance, the directors of the Northwestern National Bank, after a thorough examination of its condition and assets, " Resolved, That this bank is abundantly able, and will protect the rights of its customers, and will not suspend currency payments in any event." After Mr, Sturges' death, his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Bucking- ham, succeeded him as President and continued in that capacity until September, 1900, when the Northwestern National Bank was consolidated with the Corn Exchange National Bank. George Sturges married in Duncan's Falls, Ohio, October 16, 1862, Mary Delafield, daughter of John and Edith (Wallace) Delafield.^ She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, July 30, 1842, and died in Coronado, Cahfornia, January 15, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Sturges had nine children, all bom in Chicago, except the youngest daughter, who was born in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. 46 i Wallace Delafield Sturges, b. Sept. 27, 1863; d. Lake Geneva, Wis., Aug. 18, 1887, unmarried. 47 ii Albert Sturges, b. July 12, 1865; d. Lake Geneva, Wis., June 19, 1882 48+ iii Ethel Sturges, b. Oct. 23, 1866 49+ iv Marion Delafield Sturges, b. July 18, 1870 50+ v Rosalie Sturges, b. Dec. 14, 1873 51+ vi Helen Sturges, b. April 6, 1876 52+ vii Clara Delafield Sturges, b. Dec. 27, 1878 53 viii Julia Floyd Sturges, b. Aug. 4, 1879; d. Lake Geneva, June 7, 1881 54+ ix George Sturges, b. Mar. 6, 1884 The attachment between George Sturges and his wife was deep and tender, and she exercised a strong influence over him almost from the hour of their first acquaintance. She was a woman of rare strength and sweetness of character and great personal charm. These quahties and her never-failing thoughtful kindness and 1 John Delafield was bom in East St. George's, Bloomsbury, London, England, October 21, 1812. His wife Edith Wallace was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, April 23, 1811. 68 Solomon Sturges efforts to promote the happiness of others endeared her to all whose privilege it was to know her. 9. KATE 2 STURGES, third daughter of Solomon (1) and Lucy (Hale) Sturges, was born in Putnam, Ohio, July 9, 1840, and was educated at the seminary there. She was married in Chicago, June 18, 1863, to WilHam Henry Benton, son of Oliver and Nancy (Evans) Benton of Springfield, Ohio, afterward of Wapello, Iowa. He was born in Springfield, December 21, 1821, and died in Chi- cago, August 15, 1898. At the time of his marriage he was a promi- nent merchant in St. Louis, Missouri, where he made his home until November, 1885, when he removed to Chicago. Children, all born in St. Louis, except Lucy, who was born in Chicago : 55 i Kate Sturges Benton, b. Mar. 29, 1864 56+ ii Lucy Buckingham Benton, b. Sept. 15, 1865 57 iii William Henry Benton, b. Aug. 30, 1868 58 iv Sturges Benton, b. May 7; d. May 10, 1870 59 V Julia Holmes Benton, b. Feb. 6, 1876 60 vi Caroline Metcalf Benton, b. Oct. 24, 1881 10. FRANK 2 STURGES, sixth and youngest son of Solomon (1) and Lucy (Hale) Sturges, was born in Putnam, Ohio, Octo- ber 10, 1842. In 1860, being then in his eighteenth year, he came to Chicago with his father, and for a short time was employed by Sturges, Buckingham & Co. as a junior clerk and messenger. When, a little later in the same year, the banking house of Solomon Sturges & Sons was established, he took a position in their office. This he held until 1863. In that year the firm was changed to Solomon Sturges' Sons, and, having arrived at the age of twenty- one, Frank became one of the partners, as originally provided by his father. About a year later he sold his interest in the firm to his brothers Buckingham and Albert, and became associated with Thomas S. Dickerson, under the firm name of Dickerson, Sturges & Co., wholesale dealers in metals, importers of tin plate and sheet iron, and manufacturers of stamped and japanned ware, at 199-201 The Sturges Monument In Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanes^^lle, Ohio Descendants of Solomon Sturges 69 Randolph street. In 1865, Mr. Dickerson retired, and the business was continued by Mr, Sturges under the firm name of Frank Slurges & Co., Mr. OUver H. Lee, Mr. William S. Potwin, and Mr. Anson C. Potwin joining liim as co-partners. Shortly before the great Chicago fire of 1871 the firm name was changed to F. Sturges & Co. By that fire the firm suffered heavy losses, causing temporary embarrassment. Within a short time, however, the business had increased to larger proportions than before the catastrophe occurred, and in 1875 it was reorganized as the Chicago Stamping Company. Mr. Sturges was the president of this corpo- ration until 1893, when he sold his stock and retired. Under its new management the company was not successful. In July, 1898, Mr. Sturges bought the property back. He then conducted the business in his own name until December, 1900, when the Sturges, Cornish & Burn Company was organized to take it over. A little later, Mr. Cornish retiring, the name was changed to the Sturges & Burn Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. Sturges is now (1907) the president. Mr. Sturges married in Chicago, June 23, 1864, Janette EHza- beth Lee (known as "Lilhe" Lee), who was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 7, 1846, daughter of Ohver Harrison and Janette (Parker) Lee of Chicago. They reside (1907) in Elmhurst, Illinois, which has been their home for many years. Children, all born in Chicago: 61 + i Lee Sturges, b. Aug. 13, 1865 62 ii Janette Lee Sturges, b. Jan. 31, 1868 63 iii Lucy Hale Sturges, b. Dec. 15, 1870 64 iv Julia Lee Sturges, b. April 15; d. Aug. 15, 1872 THIRD GENERATION 11. ALBERTA 3 STURGES, daughter of William (2) and Bessie (McLeod) Sturges, was born in Chicago, September 17, 1877. She was married in St, Paul's Church, Knightsb ridge, London, England, July 25, 1905, to George Charles Montagu, M. P., of London, who was born December 29, 1874, son of Admiral Victor 70 Solomon Sturges Alexander Montagu (second son of John William, seventh Earl of Sandwich) by his wife the Lady Agneta Harriette York, second daughter of Charles Philip, fourth Earl of Hardwick. Mr. and Mrs. Montagu have one son : 65 i Victor Alexander Edward Paulet Montagu, b. in London, at 12 Bruton street. May 22, 1906. At his christ- ening, in one of the chapels of Westminster Abbey, Queen Alexandra was his godmother. 12. HOLLISTER 3 STURGES, son of William (2) and Bessie (McLeod) Sturges, was born in Chicago, June 14, 1879. He mar- ried in Washington, D. C, September 16, 1905, Jeanne Franks Steele, who was born January 5, 1884, daughter of Charles Stetson and Blanche (Whipple) Steele, and has issue: 66 i William Hollister Sturges, b. Germantown, Pa., Mar. 2, 1907 13. LUCY STURGES ^ POTWIN, eldest daughter of Charles Wolcott Potwin and Sarah Sturges (3) was born in Zanesville, Ohio, November 16, 1849, and was married in Zanesville, June 6, 1872, to Colonel Gilbert Dwight Munson, who was born in God- frey, Illinois, September 26, 1840, son of Horace Dwight and Mary Burt (Griggs) Munson of Zanesville. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 Mr. Munson enlisted as a private. In 1864 he was mustered out as Colonel, having served through the war under Generals Sherman and Grant. He then studied law at Columbia College, New York; is now (1907) a resident of Los Angeles, California. Children : 67+ i Sarah Munson, b. May 12, 1873 68 ii Isabel Munson, b. Zanesville, Sept. 5, 1874; d. Zanes- ville, Aug. 1880 14. JULIA MARSH ^ POTWIN, second daughter of Charles Wolcott Potwin and Sarah Sturges (3), was born in Zanesville, Ohio, September 26, 1851. She was married in Zanesville, Sep- Descendants of Solomon Sturges 71 tember 25, 1873, to John Robb Holmes of St. Louis, Missouri, who was born in St. Louis, June 18, 1845, son of Robert and Charlotte (Powel) Holmes of St. Louis, and has issue : 69+ i Robert Potwin Holmes, b. July 21, 1874 70 ii John Robb Holmes, b. July 5, 1877 71 iii Julia Holmes, b. Sept. 6, 1888 72 iv Cara Holmes, b. Sept. 25, 1891; d. Sept. 19, 1893 15. CARA 3 POTWIN, third daughter of Charles Wolcott Potwin and Sarah Sturges (3), was born in Zanesville, Ohio, November 18, 1855. She was married in Zanesville, September 6, 1876, to Charles Fisher Ellis of Helena, Montana, who was born in St. Louis in 1840, son of Charles Draper and Hannah Bradford (Fisher) Ellis, and has issue: 73 i Charles Potwin Ellis, b. St. Louis, Dec. 30, 1877; d. St. Louis, April 10, 1878 74 ii Bradford Hale Ellis, b. St. Louis, July 18, 1879 75 iii Lucy Potwin Ellis, b. May 17, 1881; d. Helena, Mon- tana, Oct. 16, 1890 16. CHARLES ALBERT » POTWIN of Zanesville, Ohio, only son of Charles Wolcott Potwin and Sarah Sturges (3), was born in Zanesville, June 10, 1858. He married, 1st, in Zanesville, November 19, 1890, Adelaide Wheeler Stevens, daughter of Whee- ler and Lucy (Beach) Stevens.^ She was born in Zanesville, September 5, 1865, and died September 25, 1893. Mr. Potwin married, 2d, June 19, 1901, Marie Walker Delaplane, who was born in Circleville, Ohio, November 22, 1878, daughter of Jacob Hixon and Margaret Magdalene (Benford) Delaplane.^ No issue by either marriage. 1 Wheeler Stevens was born in Chandlerville, Ohio, March 20, 1833, and died near Zanesville, September 2, 1902. His wife Lucy Beach, whom he married in Coal Run, Ohio, February 19, 1861, was born in Coal Run, August 30, 1837, and died near Zanesville, September 2, 1904. 2 Jacob Hixon Delaplane was born in Yellow Bud, Ohio, March 12, 1846, and died in Circleville, Ohio, December 30, 1887. His wife Margaret Magdalene Benford, whom he married in Circleville, October 12, 1871, was born in Utica, Ohio, October 5, 1846. 72 Solomon Sturges 17. KATE BENTON ^ POTWIN, fourth daughter of Charles Wolcott Potwin and Sarah Sturges (3), was born in Zanesville, Ohio, January 12, 1862. She was married, 1st, in Zanesville, October 22, 1885, to Frederic W. Malcolm, who died in New York city in February, 1898. By him she had one child: 76 i Alaine Malcolm, b. Zanesville, Dec. 2, 1886 Mrs. Malcolm was married, 2d, in Pueblo, Colorado, July 19, 1899, to Frederick O'Leary Buck, of Denver, Colorado, son of George Watson and Emma Maria (Williams) Buck, of Co. Nor- folk, England, and has issue : 77 ii Frederick O'Leary Buck, Jr., b. Aug. 26, 1902 18. ROWENA SPENCER 3 STURGES, eldest daughter of Shelton Sturges (4), was born in Duncan's Falls, Ohio, October 26, 1852, and was married in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, December 1, 1881, to Emerson Howard Brush, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 15, 1852, son of Joseph Beal and Sarah Southmaid (Atwater) Brush of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Brush reside in Elmhurst, Illinois. They have no issue. 19. HELEN 3 STURGES, second daughter of Shelton Sturges (4), was born in Duncan's Falls, Ohio, July 30, 1854. She was married in Santa Barbara, California, June 20, 1878, to Alfred Henry Mulliken of Chicago, by whom she had issue : 78 i Shelton Sturges Mulliken, b. Chicago, Mar. 3, 1879; d. Chicago, Mar. 5, 1880 20. WILLIAM SPENCER » STURGES, eldest son of Shelton Sturges (4) was born in Duncan's Falls, Ohio, March 3, 1856. He married, September 17, 1892, Leonor de Savin, who was born August 2, 1856, daughter of Adolpho and Guadalupe (Cota) de Savin, and hves (1907) in Arivaca, Pima county, Arizona. No issue. 21. HAROLD 3 STURGES, second son of Shelton Sturges (4), Monument in Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville, Ohio Erected by Solomon Sturges, to the Memory of his Ancestors Descendants of Solomon Sturges 73 was bom in Duncan's Falls, Oliio, February 24, 1858, and is now (1907) engaged in mining in Mexico. He married in San Francisco, California, June 20, 1883, Malvena Emma Livingston, daughter of George Henry and Elizabeth Emma (Jarret) Livingston of St. Louis, Missouri, and has two children, both born in Santa Barbara, California : 79 i Livingston Monroe Sturges, b. April 10, 1885 80 ii Rowena Spencer Sturges, b. Sept. 22, 1887 37. SOLOMON ^ STURGES of Chicago, fifth son of Albert Sturges (7) was born in Chicago, October 18, 1865, and was edu- cated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his business career as a broker in domestic exchange, between the banks in Chicago. About 1888 he formed a partnership with Charles A. Wilson under the firm name of Wilson & Sturges, stock and bond brokers. In 1896 this firm was dissolved by mutual consent and early in 1897 Mr. Sturges became a member of the stock brokerage house of Alfred L. Baker & Co. of Chicago. He married in Memphis, Tennessee, October 2, 1901, Mrs. Mary Estelle Biden, who was born October 11, 1877, daughter of Domi- nick d'Este and Catherine Campbell (Smyth) Dempsey. Mr. and Mrs. Sturges have no issue, but have adopted Mrs. Sturges' son by her first husband and have given him the name of 81 i Preston Sturges. He was born August 29, 1898, and was adopted in January, 1902 48. ETHEL ^ STURGES, eldest daughter of George Sturges (8) was born in Chicago, October 23, 1866. She was married in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, October 3, 1888, to WilHam Francis Dummer of Chicago, who was born in Beardstown, Cass county, Illinois, March 17, 1851, son of Judge Henry Enoch and Phebe (Van Ness) Dummer ^ of Jacksonville, Illinois. 1 Henry Enoch Dummer and Phebe Van Ness were married in Beardstown, Illinois, January 16, 1840. Judge Dummer was descended from Richard Dummer who came to America from England in 1632 and settled first in Roxbury and later, near Newbury, Massachusetts. 74 Solomon Sturges Children : 82 i Marion Dummer, b. Chicago, June 20, 1890 83 ii Katharine Dummer, b. Chicago, Mar. 31, 1892 84 iii Ethel Sturges Dummer, b. Chicago, April 13, 1895 85 iv Frances Dummer, b. Chicago, Dec. 24, 1899 86 V William Francis Dummer, b. Coronado, Cal., Mar. 5, 1902; d. Lake Geneva, Wis., Aug. 18, 1902 These children live in Chicago on the quarter block where their mother, Ethel Sturges Dummer, was born ; where their grandfather, George Sturges, and their great-grandfather, Solomon Sturges, lived. This is an unusual circumstance in such a new and stirring American city as Chicago. 49. MARION DELAFIELD^ STURGES, second daughter of George Sturges (8), was born in Chicago, July 18, 1870. She was married in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, May 29, 1907, to Samuel Dauchy of Chicago, who was bom in Troy, New York, Septem- ber 28, 1865, son of George Kellogg and Lavinia (Otis) Dauchy of Chicago. 50. ROSALIE 3 STURGES, third daughter of George Sturges (8), was born in Chicago, December 14, 1873. She was married in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, June 9, 1898, to Hubbard Foster Carpenter of Chicago, who was bom in Park Ridge, Illinois, September 29, 1874, son of George Benjamin and Elizabeth Curtis (Greene) Carpenter ^ of Chicago, and has two children, both born in Chicago. 87 i Mary Delafield Carpenter, b. April 7, 1899 88 ii George Sturges Carpenter, b. Jan. 22, 1901 51. HELEN 3 STURGES, fourth daughter of George Sturges 1 George Benjamin Carpenter, head of the well-known house of George B. Car- penter & Co., ship chandlers, in which his son Hubbard is one of the partners, was born in Richmond, Ashtabula county, Ohio, March 13, 1834. His wife, Elizabeth Curtis Greene, whom he married in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, March 12, 1861, was born in Pittsfield, March 28, 1841, and died in Chicago, June 25, 1905. Descendants of Solomon Sturges 75 (8), was born in Chicago, April 6, 1876. She was married in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, July 20, 1901, to her second cousin, Arthur DuBois, of New York city, who was born in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, January 12, 1877, son of Eugene and Anna Greenleaf (Brooks) DuBois of West New Brighton. Chil- dren, all born in West New Brighton, except Dorothy, who was born in Greenwich, Connecticut: 89 i John Delafield DuBois, b. Jan. 24, 1903 90 ii Helen Sturges DuBois, b. Jan. 22; d. June 23, 1904 91 iii Marion Sturges DuBois, b. Dec. 6, 1905 92 iv Dorothy DuBois, b. July 6, 1907 52. CLARA DELAFIELD 3 STURGES, fifth daughter of George Sturges (8), was born in Chicago, December 27, 1878, and was married in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, June 21, 1905, to Wil- liam Templeton Johnson of New York city, who was born in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, August 31, 1877, son of Oliver Templeton and CaroUne Sophia (Thomas) Johnson ^ of West New Brighton. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have one child: 93 i Winthrop Templeton Johnson, b. in West New Brigh- ton, May 26, 1906 54. GEORGE ^ STURGES, tliird and only surviving son of George Sturges (8), was bom in Chicago, March 6, 1884, and was graduated from Yale University in 1906. He married in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, October 31, 1906, Lelia Clarissa Parker, who was bom in Chicago, June 30, 1878, daughter of George Green and Inez Luella (Knapp) Parker of Chicago. 56. LUCY BUCKINGHAM » BENTON, second daughter of William Henry Benton and Kate Sturges (9), was bom in Chicago, September 15, 1865. She was married in Chicago, September 10, 1902, to Edward George Evans of Worcester, England, son of 1 Oliver Templeton Johnson was born June 29, 1851; married June 9, 1875; died January 80, 1891. 76 Solomon Sturges Edward Robert and Clara (Glover) Evans of Worcester, and has issue : 94 i Edw^ard Buckingham Benton Evans, b. Worcester, Mar. 12, 1904 95 ii William Benton Evans, b. Worcester, June 10, 1905 61. LEE 3 STURGES, only son of Frank Sturges (10) was born in Chicago, August 13, 1865, and was educated in Chicago and Philadelphia. He began his business career with the Chicago Stamping Company, of which he was for a time the Vice-President. He is now (1907) the Vice-President and Treasurer of the Sturges & Burn Manufacturing Company. He married at Alvanna Ranch, in Skiddy, Morris county, Kansas, October 1, 1890, Mary Allen Sullivant, who was born in Homer, Illinois, August 25, 1872, daughter of Joseph McDowell and Mary (Allen) SulUvant. They reside in Elmhurst, Illinois. Children : 96 i Mary Sullivant Sturges, b. Sept. 2, 1891 97 ii Frank Sturges, b. Sept. 14, 1893 98 iii Lucy Hale Sturges, b. Oct. 16, 1898 FOURTH GENERATION 67. SARAH MUNSON,'' daughter of Gilbert Dwight Munson and Lucy Sturges Potwin (13), was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 12, 1873. She was married at the home of her uncle Ebenezer Buckingham in Lake Forest, Ilhnois, June 30, 1901, to A. Ernest Northcote of Santa Barbara, Cal., son of Lewis Stafford and Irma (Weguelin) Northcote, and has issue : 99 i Lucy Isabel Northcote, b. May 8, 1902 100 ii Bertha Elizabeth Northcote, b. Aug, 16, 1904 101 iii Oliver Stafford Northcote, b. Sept. 25, 1906 69. ROBERT POTWIN^ HOLMES, of Jophn, Missouri, eldest son of John Robb Holmes and Julia Marsh Potwin (14), Descendants op Solomon Sturges 77 was born in St. Louis, Missouri, July 21, 1874. He married in Joplin, Missouri, June 7, 1899, Ann Picher, daughter of William Henry and Susan J. (Brummwell) Picher of Sedalia, Missouri, and has issue : 102 i Robert Picher Holmes, b. Joplin, Mar. 22, 1901 INDEX INDEX The names upon the genealogical tables are not included. Adams, John L., 56 Adams & Sturges, 56 Allen, Maria, 66 Mary, 76 Atwater, Sarah South- maid, 72 Bancroft, Dr. W. W., 37, 49 Banks, John, 16 Susannah, 13, 16 Barlow, Deborah, 14, 15, 16 John, 14, 15 Ruth, 16 Beach, Lucy, 71 Benford, Margaret Mag- dalene, 71 Benton, Caroline Met- calf, 68 Julia Holmes, 68 Kate (Sturges), 9, 45, 55, 68, 75 Kate Sturges, 68 Lucy Buckingham, 68, 75 Nancy (Evans), 62, 68 Oliver, 62, 68 Sturges, 68 Susan Rachel, 62 William Henry, 68, 75 William Henry, Jr., 68 Blair, Chauncey B., 66 Abigail (Jackson), 16 Bradley, Abigail, 16 Daniel, 16 Ebenezer, 15 Francis, 16 Mary (Sturges), 15 Ruth (Barlow), 16 Brummwell, Susan J., 77 Brush, Emerson Howard, 72 Joseph Beal, 72 Sarah Southmaid (At- water), 72 Buck, Emma Maria (Wil- liams), 72 Frederick O'Leary, 72 George Watson, 72 Buckingham, Alvah, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 55, 60 A. Buckingham & Co., 33, 34 Amanda, 26 Anna (Hale), 30, 48, 60 Benjamin Hale, 33, 34, 56 Clarence, 61 Ebenezer, 22, 25, 27, 28-30, 33, 56, 60 Ebenezer, Jr., 50, 60, 64, 67, 76 E. Buckingham, Jr., & Co., 29 Esther (Cooley), 26 Eunice (Hale), 30, 48, 55, 60 James, 9 John, 29 John, 56 Julia, 60 Kate Sturges, 61 Lucy Maud, 61 Lucy (Sturges), 50 Milton, 33 Sarah (Sturges), 22, 25, 28, 29 Stephen, 26 Buckingham & Burlin- game, 35 Buckingham & Sturges, 34, 56 81 Burlingame, Rufus Put- nam, 35 Burlington Warehouse, 57, 62, 63 Burr, Ann, 14 Mary, 20 Capitol Freehold Land & Development Co., 57 Carpenter, Elizabeth Cur- tis (Greene), 74 George Benjamin, 74 George Sturges, 74 Hubbard Foster, 74 Mary Delafield, 74 Rosalie (Sturges), 74 Cheney, Mary, 27 Chicago Oil Works, 59 Convers, Ebenezer, 47 Kate (Buckingham), 47 Cox, Julia (Buckingham), 60 Samuel Sullivan, 60 Couch, Abigail (Sturges), 15 Simon, 15 Dauchy, George Kellogg, 74 Lavinia (Otis), 74 Marion Delafield (Stur- ges), 74 Samuel, 74 DeKoven, John, 65 Delafield, Edith (Wal- lace), 67 John, 67 Mary, 67, 68 Delaplane, Jacob, 71 Margaret Magdalene (Benford), 71 Marie Walker, 71 82 Index Dempsey, Catherine Campbell (Smyth), 73 Dominick d'Este, 73 Mary Estelle, 73 De Savin, Adolpho, 72 Guadalupe (Cota), 72 Leonor, 72 Dickerson, Sturges& Co., 68 Dickerson, Thomas S., 68 Dimon, Abigail, 20 Abigail (Ward), 20 Ebenezer, 20 Esther (Sturges), 16, 20 Jane (Pinkney), 20 Mary (Burr), 20 Moses, 20 Sarah, 20 Thomas, 20 William, 16, 20 DuBois, Anna Greenleaf (Brooks), 75 Arthur, 75 Dorothy, 75 Eugene, 75 Helen, 75 Helen (Sturges), 75 John Delafield, 75 Marion Sturges, 75 Dummer, Ethel (Sturges), 73 Ethel Sturges, 74 Frances, 74 Henry Enoch, 73 Katharine, 74 Marion, 74 Phebe (Van Ness), 73 Richard, 73 William Francis, 73 William Francis, Jr., 74 Eliot, Rev. Andrew, 19 Ellis, Bradford Hale, 71 Cara (Potwin), 71 Charles Draper, 71 Charles Potwin, 71 Hannah Bradford (Fisher), 71 Lucy Potwin, 71 Rowland, 56 Ellis & Sturges, 56 Evans, Edward Bucking- ham, 76 Clara (Glover), 76 Edward George, 75 Edward Robert, 76 Lucy Buckingham (Benton), 76 Evans, Nancy, 62, 68 William Benton, 67 Farrer, Samuel, 34 Farwell, John V., 57 Fisher, Hannah Bradford, 71 Foote, Sarah, 16 Gardiner, Mary, 16 Glover, Clara, 76 Gookin, Frederick Wil- liam, 9, 66 Graham, Benjamin, 63 Eliza, 63 Katharine (Large), 63 Greene, Elizabeth Cur- tis, 74 Griggs, Mary Burt, 70 Guthrie, Austin A., 22 Hale, Anna, 30, 48, 60 Benjamin, 26, 30, 45, 55 Eunice, 30, 48, 56, 60 Jerusha Merrick, 26, 47 Lucy, 30, 31, 55, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64, 68 Martha (Welles), 26, 30, 31 55 Halsted, Caleb O., 35 Hammond, Charles Gran- ville, 65 Hardwick, Earl of, 70 Hersey, John, 25 Holmes, Cara, 71 Charlotte (Powell), 71 John Robb, 71, 76 Julia, 71 Julia Marsh (Potwin), 70, 76 Robert, 71 Robert Picher, 77 Robert Potwin, 71, 76 Hosmer, Addison Augus- tus, 27 Amanda(Sturges),27,47 Eben, 27 Mary (Cheney), 27 S. A., 34, 35 Jarret, Elizabeth Emma, 73 Johnson, Caroline Sophia (Thomas), 75 Clara Delafield (Stur- ges), 75 Oliver Templeton, 75 Winthrop Templeton, 75 Judson, Jeremiah, 16 Sarah, 16 Sarah (Foote), 16 Kingsbury, Rev. Addi- son, 50, 58, 60 Knapp, Inez Luella, 75 Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Rail- road, 57, 62, 63 Lee, Janette (Parker), 69 Janette Elizabeth, 69 Oliver Harrison, 69 Leggett, Francis H., 58 Francis Howard, 58 Leiter, Levi Z., 60 Lewis, Deborah, 14 Lothrop, 14 Sarah (Sturges), 14 Lewis, Ham & Co., 59, 66 Livingston, Elizabeth Emma (Jarret), 73 George Henry, 73 Malvena Emma, 73 Ludlam, Reuben, 65 Malcolm, Alaine, 72 Frederic W., 72 Marsh, Sophia, 57, 58 Mathews, Betsey (Lev- ens), 27 Increase, 27 Mary Sturges, 27 McAllister, Jesse, 59 McLeod, Bessie, 57, 58, 69, 70 John D., 57 Mary (Lannon), 57 Montagu, Agnetta Harri- ette (York), 70 Alberta (Sturges), 69 George Charles, 69 John William, 70 Victor Alexander, 70 Victor Alexander Ed- ward Paulet, 70 Morehouse, Mary (Sher- wood), 16 Thomas, 16 MuUiken, Alfred Henry, 72 Helen (Sturges), 72 Shelton Sturges, 72 Munson, Horace Dwight, 70 Gilbert Dwight, 70, 76 Isabel, 70 Index 83 Munson, Lucy Sturges Redfield, Deborah (Stur- (Potwin), 70, 76 ges), 15 Mary Burt (Griggs), 70 James, 15 Sarah, 70, 76 Reed, Dr., 30 Nichols, Abigail (Stur- ges), 21 Allen, 21 Nickerson, Samuel M., 61 Northcote, A. Ernest, 76 Bertha Elizabeth, 76 Irma (Weguelin), 76 Lewis Stafford, 76 Lucy Isabel, 76 Oliver Stafford, 76 Sarah (Munson), 76 Northwestern National Bank of Chicago, 57, 59, 61. 65, 66, 67 Nye, Arius, 60 Frances Rowena, 60 Rowena (Spencer), 60 Osborne, Sarah, 14 Otis, Lavinia, 74 Parker, George Green, 75 Inez Luella (Knapp), 75 Janette, 69 Lelia Clarissa, 75 Perry, Ebenezer, 21 Eunice (Sturges), 21 Martha (Sherwood), 21 Nathaniel, 21 Sarah, 21, 23, 24, 55 Richer, Ann, 77 Susan J. (Brummwell), 77 William Henry, 77 Pinkney, Jane, 20 Potwin, Anson C, 69 Cara, 58, 71 Caroline Ameha, 57, 58 Charles Albert, 58, 71 Charles Wolcott, 58, 70, 71, 72 John Stoughton, 57, 58 Julia Marsh, 58, 70 Kate Benton, 58, 72 Lucy Sturges, 58, 70 Sarah (Sturges), 40, 65, 58, 70, 71, 72 Sophia (Marsh), 57, 68 William S., 69 Powell, Charlotte, 71 Prindiville, Capt. John, SB Sandwich, Earl of, 70 Sheldon, Nathaniel E., 39 Sherwood, Buckingham, 26 Martha, 21 Mary, 16 Steel, James, 39 Steele, Blanche (Whip- ple), 70 Charles Stetson, 70 Jennie Franks, 70 Stevens, Adelaide Whee- ler, 71 Lucy (Beach), 71 Wheeler, 71 Stratton, Richard, 15 Sarah (Sturges), 15 Sturges, Abigail, 15 Abigail, 21 Abigail (Bradley), 16 Abigail O., 16 Abigail (Wheeler), 16 Albert, 38, 55, 61-65, 68,73 Albert, 67 Albert Hale, 64 Alberta, 57, 69, 70 Alletta, 64 Alonzo Walton, 16, 19 Amanda (Ada), 27, 47 Amanda (Buckingham), 26 Amelia, 22, 40 Ann (Burr), 14 Arthur Percy, 64 Barnabas Lothrop, 21 Benjamin, 16 Benton, 62 Bessie (McLeod), 57, 58, 69, 70 Buckingham, 38, 55, 61-65, 68 Buckingham & Co., 36, 56, 61, 63, 64, 68 Caroline Amelia (Pot- win), 57 Charles Benton, 62 Charles Mathews, 9, 27 Christopher, 15, 16 Clara Delafield, 67, 75 Cornish & Burn Com- pany, 69 David, 14 Deborah, 15 Sturges, Deborah, 16 Deborah (Barlow), 14, 15 Deborah (Lewis), 14 Dimon, 20, 21, 55 Dimon, Jr., 22 Dimon, 26 Dora, 64 Eben Perry, 21, 24, 25, 26, 34, 35, 47 Ebenezer, 20 Edward (of Yarmouth, Mass.), 14 Edward, 21 Edward, 22, 23, 26, 27, 34, 35 Edward, 26 Eliza (Graham), 63 Elizabeth, 14 Esther, 16 Esther, 21 Esther L., 16 Ethel, 67, 73, 74 Eunice, 21 Flora, 64 Frances Rowena (Nye), 60 Frank, 46, 55, 59, 64, 68, 69, 76 Frank, 76 Frank Hale, 64 Frank Sturges & Co., 69 George, 55, 59, 64-67, 73-75 George, Jr., 67, 75 George Sturges & Co., 64 Harold, 60, 72, 73 Harry Humphrey, 64 Helen, 60, 72 Helen, 67, 74, 75 Henry Hale, 26, 27 Hezekiah, 16, 17, 19. 20, 21 Hezekiah, 22, 23, 33. 40, 66 HoUister, 57, 70 Ida, 64 James Dwight, 59, 66 Jane, 16 Janette Lee, 69 Jeremiah, 16 Jerusha Merrick (Hale), 26, 47 Jerusha (Thompson), 14 John, 13-16 Jonathan, 13-16 84 Index Sturges, Jonathan (Judge), 13, 14 Jonathan (of New York), 21, 36 Joseph, 15, 16, 17, 20 Judson, 16, 17 Julia Floyd, 67 Julia Lee, 69 Kate, 55, 68 Kate Graham, 63 Katy Benton, 63 Lee, 69, 76 Lily Benton, 63 Livingston Monroe, 73 Lucy, 50, 55, 60, 61 Lucy (Hale), 30, 31, 37, 45-52, 55, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64, 68 Lucy Hale, 64 Lucy Hale, 69 Lucy Hale, 76 Maria (Allen), 66 Marion Delafield, 67, 74 Mary, 15 Mary (or Polly), 21 Mary (or Polly), 21, 22 Mary Delafield, 64 Mary (Delafield), 67, 68 Mary (Gardiner), 16 Mary (Sherwood), 16 Mary Sturges (Math- ews), 27 Mary Sullivant, 76 McAllister & Co., 59 Paul, 64 Philip, 14 Preston, 73 Rifles, 39 Rosalie, 67, 74 Rowena Spencer, 60, 72 Rowena Spencer, 73 Samuel, 14 Samuel, 21 Sarah, 14 Sarah, 22, 25, 28, 29 Sarah, 39, 55, 58, 70- 72 Sarah (Osborne), 14 Sarah (Perry), 21, 23, 24, 55 Sturges, Sarah S., 16 Shelton, 39, 48, 55, 58- 60, 64, 65, 72 Shelton, Jr., 60 Solomon, 16, 17, 19 Solomon, 21 Solomon, birth, 13, 22, 55 recollections of child- hood, 23, 24 choice of career, 25 voyage to Chesa- peake Bay, 25 life in Georgetown, D. C, 25 military service, 27 journey to Ohio, 27, 28 partnership with Eb- enezer Bucking- ham, 29 journey to New Or- leans, 30 courtship and mar- riage, 31, 52 wedding journey, 45 growing business, 34 builds Wabash & Erie Canal, 34, 35 builds Fulton Eleva- tor, Chicago, 35 builds Central Ele- vators, 36 removal to Chicago, 37 builds Chicago house, 37 death of wife, 37 founds Solomon Stur- ges & Sons, 38 shattered health, 39 equips the "Sturges Rifles," 39 visits the army, 39 death, 40, 55 -• estimate oi.his char- acter, 40-42 list of children, 55 Solomon, 51, 64, 73 Solomon Sturges & Co., Zanesville, 56, 61 Solomon Sturges & Sons, 88, 56, 61, 63, 64, 68 Sturges, Solomon Sturges* Sons, 38, 57, 58, 61, 63, 64, 68 Stephen Buckingham, 26, 65 Susan Rachel (Benton), 62 Susannah (Banks), 16 Theodore, 64 Thomas, 15 Virginia, 60 Wallace Delafield, 67 Washington Graham, 63 William, 34, 37, 48, 55- 57, 69, 70 William Spencer, 60, 72 William Hollister, 70 & Burn Manufactur- ing Co., 69 & Co. (Union Stock Yards Bank), 61 & Ellis, 56 Sullivant, Joseph Mc- Dowell, 76 Mary (Allen), 76 Mary Allen, 76 Thomas, Caroline Sophia, 75 Thompson, Jerusha, 14 Van Ness, Phebe, 73 Wallace, Edith, 67 Ward, Abigail, 20 Andrew, 20 Esther, 20 Moses, 20 Welles, Chester O., 22 Martha, 26, 30, 31, 55 Wheeler, Abigail, 16 Whipple, Blanche, 70 Williams, Elisha, 25 Emma Maria, 72 Wilson, Charles A., 73 Wilson & Sturges, 73 Woodbridge, D., 28 York, Agneta Harriette, 70 Charles Philip, Earl of Hardwick, 70 MEMORANDA PSQ 23