Remembering Sturtevant

ALFRED HENRY STURTEVANT (1891-1970) was the youngest of six children of ALFRED HENRY and HARRIET (MORSE) STURTEVANT. His grandfather, JULIAN STURTEVANT was a Yale graduate, a Congregational minister, and one of the founders and later president of Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. STURTEVANT'S father taught mathematics for a while at that college, but later took up farming, first in Illinois and later in southern Alabama, where the family moved when STURTEVANT was seven years old. STURTEVANT went to a one-room country school and later to a public high school in Mobile.