Lake-Porter-La Porte County IN Archives Biographies.....Sturtevant, Daniel Beauman 1840 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

DANIEL BEAUMAN STURTEVANT.

    Daniel Beauman Sturtevant, of section 28, Ross township, has lived in this
vicinity all his life, and from his boyhood days of sixty years ago to the
present almost the entire development of Lake county has taken place, so that
few men are better informed by actual personal experience of the material
history of this portion of the county. He has lived continuously on one farm for
over fifty-five years, and all the associations and interests of his life are
bound up with it, and there it is his good pleasure to pass the remaining days
of his busy and prosperous career and await the summons from an activity that
has borne much fruit and been worthy and beneficial to the community in general.

    Mr. Sturtevant was born in Porter county, Indiana, just three miles east of
the farm where he has lived so long, on April 27, 1840. His father, John
Sturtevant, was born in the town of Barton, Vermont, in 1806, and was reared,
educated and married there. He came to LaPorte county, Indiana, in 1833, being
one of the first carpenters to follow his craft in that now populous county. In
1836 he moved to Porter county, locating on the farm where he remained until
1848, when he settled on the old farm in Lake county now owned by his son, and
where he died on January 1, 1858. He belongs to the list of early settlers of
the county, and was also successful in his general career. He married Miss
Louise Cass, who was a native of New Hampshire and a cousin of Dr. Lewis Cass,
who was one of the pioneers and foremost men of Lake county. She died at the age
of thirty-eight years, having been the mother of three sons and three daughters.

    Mr. D. B. Sturtevant, who was the second child and eldest son, was eight
years old when he went with his parents to Lake county, so that most of his
boyhood was spent on the farm which as a man he has tilled and made the source
of his livelihood. He is now the owner of about five hundred acres, some of it
in Porter, county, and on this he is still actively engaged in general farming
and stock-raising. He has about a hundred and fifty head of cattle and a good
lot of hogs. His farm is one of the model places of the township, and he has
made it so mainly by his own labors and most efficient management. Mr.
Sturtevant was a raiser of the registered Herefords for a number of years, but
has now retired from that business. He has given his best years and efforts to
this life work, but has also taken an intelligent interest in the world about
him, co-operating in community affairs and regularly casting his ballot at
national elections for Democratic principles.

    Mr. Sturtevant was married in 1866 to Miss Eugenie Wood, who was born in
Iowa, but came to Lake county in girlhood. They are the parents of four
children, John, Judson, Flora and Carrie. John was a student of Valparaiso
College. Mrs. Sturtevant was born in Keosauqua, Iowa, October 31, 1844, a
daughter of John and Caroline (Brown) Wood. Her father was a native of Vermont
and her mother of Virginia. Her great-grandfather, David Wood, was a hero in the
Revolutionary war, and the gun he carried in the war is yet in the family as a
souvenir.

      Mrs. Sturtevant was reared and educated in Ohio. She came from a family of
teachers. Mrs. Sturtevant is a member of the Christian church of Deep River,
Indiana.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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