Background
Born June 30, 1888, in Michigan, Harwood Sturtevant grew up in Delavan, Wisconsin where he graduated high school.
Born June 30, 1888, in Michigan, Harwood Sturtevant grew up in Delavan, Wisconsin where he graduated high school.
He attended the University of Michigan, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and Western Theological Seminary (now Seabury-Western) at Evanston, Illinois where he received a Doctor of Divinity degree.
The Rt. Review William Walter Webb, Bishop of Milwaukee, ordained him deacon and priest in 1915. From 1918-1919 he served as Assistant and Canon at All Saints" Cathedral, Milwaukee and as a voluntary Chaplain in the United States Navy. On Saint Andrew’s Day, November 30, 1929, Bishop Reginald Heber Weller of Bishop Fond du Lac, William Walter Webb, Bishop of Milwaukee, and Sheldon M. Griswold, Bishop of Chicago consecrated him Bishop Coadjutor for the Diocese of Fond du Lac.
The Sisters of the Holy Nativity presented the new Bishop with the Pectoral Cross which originally belonged to Bishop Charles Chapman Grafton.
He served as Coadjutor for four years until Bishop Weller retired in November 1933, during which time he lived in Appleton, Wisconsin. Bishop Sturtevant served as the Fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States of America, during a time where the scars of the Great Depression and the wounds of a World War were inflicted on the world and the diocese.
Bishop Sturtevant served his community as President of the Rotary Club, Chairman of the Fond du Lac Public Forum and work for the county Red Cross during World World War World War II He also served on the Trustees of Lawrence College (now Lawrence University) and Nashotah House Theological Seminary. After retirement in 1956, Bishop Sturtevant moved to Florida, where he died on April 16, 1977.
Nationally, Bishop Sturtevant served as a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission and of the Forward Movement Commission. He was a member of the General Board of the National Council of Churches for two years.