Julian M. Sturtevant: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint)
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Julian Monson Sturtevant was an American author, educator, and Congregational clergyman.
Background
Julian was born on July 26, 1805 in Warren, Connecticut, United States. He was the second of the four children of Warren and Lucy (Tanner) Sturtevant. He was a descendant of Samuel Sturtevant who was in Plymouth as early as 1642. When Julian was eleven years old his father, financially distressed like so many other New England farmers by the economic consequences of the War of 1812, emigrated with his family to the Western Reserve, settling in what is now Tallmadge, Ohio.
Education
In Tallmadge, Ohio the boy attended an academy and in June 1822, with several companions, set out in a one-horse wagon for New Haven, Connecticut, to enroll at Yale College. Four years later he was graduated.
Career
He taught school in New Canaan, Connecticut, during the winter of 1826-27, and subsequently returned to Yale to study theology.
Settling at Jacksonville, Illinois, he became the first instructor in Illinois College, which opened with an enrollment of nine on January 4, 1830. With this institution he was connected for more than fifty-five years. From 1831 to 1844 he was professor of mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy. In the latter year he succeeded Edward Beecher as president and became also professor of mental science and science of government.
At the first National Council of Congregational Churches, held in Boston in 1865, he delivered the opening sermon. When the slavery question became an important issue in the West, while refraining from identifying himself with the radical abolitionists, he became a strong advocate of freedom.
When Richard Yates, the war governor of Illinois, was about to depart for Altoona to attend the convention of loyal governors, he wrote to Sturtevant for advice; assuring him that such advice would have weight in determining his course.
During the Civil War, when attendance in the college had dropped to a low point, Sturtevant was sent to England, with the encouragement of Lincoln and armed with letters to prominent Englishmen, to win a more sympathetic support for the Northern cause.
Although not a prolific writer, he was in later life an occasional contributor to such periodicals as the New Englander, the Congregational Review, and the Princeton Review.
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Religion
In religion, while by no means a radical, he represented a refreshingly independent and liberal point of view.
Views
In spite of many discouragements, he fought manfully to keep Illinois College free from narrow sectarian control and while president insisted upon a reasonable freedom in the discussion of theological matters.
Connections
In 1829 he married Elizabeth Maria Fayerweather of New Canaan. She died on February 12, 1840, and on March 3 of the following year he married her sister, Hannah. By each he had five children.