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From: Merle Rummel <>
Subject: Re: STURGIS, D.B.; ~1811-; OH or PA/IL
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 19:58:06 -0400


>Do any of the Brethren background materials mention (my 3rd gfather) Dr.
>Daniel B. Sturgis? I gather he became a Bishop, was some sort of doctor.
>He married a Susan unknown. He first appears in IL census in 1840, in
>Macoupin County. I'm trying to find out his birthplace and antecedents.
>
J H Moore in "Brethren Pathfinders" pp 132-137 has a whole chapter on him.

He says "The father of young Sturgis was once a wealthy farmer, but losing
his splendid possess by going on security bonds, he moved to eastern
Tennessee where Daniel was born June 17, 1811. Anohter move when the boys
was three years old brought the faily to Montgomry county, Ohio, and still
another in 1822 to Greene county, Ill, near the Macoupin County line..."

Merle C Rummel
Church Historian

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