Individual Details

Census

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George D. Sturm, 28, Farmer, 50, OH
Marion, 20, VT
Henry E., 5, Iowa
Elbridge G., 2, MO
Catharine Sturm, 18, OH

Biography

http://people.umass.edu/sturm/narratives.html

George was born in Shelby Co, Ohio Sept. 11, 1816 and married Francis Marion Jordan (b. New York or Vermont, Feb. 9, 1828) in 1844 in Stark County, Illinois. (There is a record of a land purchase on April 8, 1850 in Stark, Co. Illinois.) Their first child Henry E. Sturm was born in Black Hawk Co., Iowa in 1845. They then moved to Missouri where their second child was born, Eldridge George Sturm in 1848. The family returned to Stark Co, Illinois where he was listed as a resident in October 1850, while his sister Catherine lived with them. Born that year was Alonza S. (1850). In the 1850 Stark County census the household listing for George D. Sturm, age 28, a farmer, includes Marion age 21, Henry E age 5, Elbridge G age 2 and Catharine Sturm age 18.George and his son Isaac both record federal land purchases on April 8, 1850. They then moved back to Iowa (Ringgold Co.) where son Abner DeForest Sturm was born (Jan. 22, 1853); Elemial Harvey "Lem" Sturm was born in 1857; Octava Minerva Sturm (Mar., 5, 1861 Vandalia, IA). William Rufus Sturm was born in Maines Grove, Iowa (May 26, 1864). George and Francis moved after that to Osage Co., Kansas where they were recorded in the 1870 census, then to Republic Co., KS for the 1875 census and finally to Long Island, Phillips Co., Kansas in 1893 where George dies.