Biographical Sketch W. Andrew Sturgeon, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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W. Andrew Sturgeon, a prominent agriculturist of Watkins Township, and
a successful stock dealer, was born in Lauderdale County, Ala., in 1849
his parents, John N. and Ersly J. (Howard) Sturgeon, both being natives
of Lauderdale County, Ala., born about 1827 and 1828, respectively. 
They remained in their native county until about 1852, then removed to
Arkansas, and a year later to Dent County, Mo.  He here settled in the
woods, improved a farm, and here the father died in 1880.  The mother 
is still living on the old farm, and is a member of the Baptist Church.
W. Andrew Sturgeon is the eldest of seven children, three sons and two
daughters now living, and received his education at Lake Spring Semin-
ary.  He began for himself at the age of eighteen by renting land of 
his father, and in March, 1873, he married Miss Lizzie, the daughter of
Bluford and Julia Arthur, natives of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, respec-
tively.  Both the father and mother came to Missouri at a very early
day.  After marriage Mr. Arthur, (father of subject's wife), settled in
Dent County, where he died before the war.  The mother is still living
in Dent County.  To Mr. Sturgeon and wife were born four children, all
living.  Mr. Sturgeon has been a resident of Watkins Township from 
early boyhood, and for fifteen years in the neighborhood of his present
farm.  He has about 600 acres of land, 200 under cultivation, and is 
one of the stirring, wide a wake farmers of the township.  He has been
engaged in farming and stock raising all his life, and has been very
successful at the same.  He is a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and
is a Democrat in his political views, casting his first presidential
vote for S. J. Tilden in 1876.

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