Sturtevant, Rev. J. M. Jr.

STURTEVANT, HAYWORD

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Date: 2/1/2013 at 12:07:42

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

STURTEVANT, Rev. J.M. Jr.—Grinnell Twp—pg 928-9. Pastor of the Congregational Church, Grinnell, Iowa. Born February 2d, 1834, at Jacksonville, Illinois. His elementary education was obtained in the schools of his native city; entering Illinois College at the age of sixteen, he graduated with honor in 1854. After graduation he taught one year in the public schools of Jacksonville, and one year in Illinois College. He then entered the Andover Theological Seminary, and after three years satisfactory professional preparation entered the Christian ministry and was settled pastor of the Congregational Church of Hannibal, Missouri, in 1860. Here he served with most satisfactory results for nine years. For six months he preached for the New England Church, of New York; then, in 1870, was called to the pastorate in Ottawa, Illinois. Here was born their oldest child Amy, March 24, 1871. Mr. Sturtevant remained with his church three and a half years, when he was called to Denver, Colorado. In December, 1873, he accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of the church in Grinnell, where he has since resided, winning through his superior qualities the love and respect of all. The church is spiritually and financially a worthy pride of the city and State, being greater in members and having probably the most elegant stone edifice west of Chicago. Their second child, Hayward, was born here November 2d, 1878. Our subject was married to Miss Katie Hayward, daughter of Col. J.T.K. Hayward, of Hannibal, Missouri, November 26, 1861. He is in direct line of descent from the old New England stock of the same name. His father for many years has been president of Illinois College, at Jacksonville. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him in the Illinois College in 1879.