Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Sturtevant, Myron Curtis M D 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Sturtevant, Myron Curtis, M.D. – Grundy County has been the home of some of 
the most efficient and learned of the medical profession from its earliest 
history.  The health of this locality has been, and still is, carefully looked 
after by men of ability and high standing in their profession, and one who is 
remembered with kindly affection by those to whom he ministered for many 
years, although he has now retired from active practice, is Dr. Myron Curtis 
Sturtevant, of Morris. He was born at Lowell, Mass., January 12, 1835, a son 
of Cyrus and Rhoda (Harvey) Sturtevant. The father was born in Maine and his 
wife in Vermont. The paternal grandfather was Jairus Sturtevant and the 
maternal grandfather was John Harvey, the former a native of New Hampshire, 
and the latter of Vermont. The parents married in Vermont, where the father 
followed the trade of a carpenter and he was engaged in this line after his 
removal to Lowell, Mass., early in his married life. In the fall of 1837 he 
came as far west as Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a builder and contractor. 
His business grew to such proportions that with his two brothers he organized 
the Sturtevant Lumber Company in 1854. Later the family moved to Wheaton, 
Ill., where he continued as a contractor and builder. Desiring a change of 
occupation, Cyrus Sturtevant then moved to a farm in Ogle County, but a few 
years later went to Wisconsin and still later to Crete, Neb., where he died. 
His widow lived with a daughter, and died at Raleigh, N. C.

Myron Curtis Sturtevant attended the Cleveland High School, Granger Academy 
and Oberlin College, and took his medical course at Cleveland. In 1873 he 
located at Morris and entered upon a general practice, which he continued with 
marked success until 1900, when he retired. In October, 1859, Dr. Sturtevant 
was married to Pearly E. Boynnton, born in Vermont, daughter of Charles and 
Eliza (Stevens) Boynnton, natives of Vermont and New York respectively. Dr. 
and Mrs. Sturtevant became the parents of one son, Wilbur C., who died at the 
age of thirty-four years. Dr. Sturtevant is a member of the Congregational 
Church and has held all the church offices and has been senior deacon since 
1882. Politically he is a Republican, but has never cared for public office. 
He is a man of the highest standing, and is recognized as a representative of 
the best class of Grundy County citizens.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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