Russell Sturgis (1805–1887)

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Russell Sturgis
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedNovember 2, 1887(1887-11-02) (aged 82)
Alma materHarvard College
Spouses
Lucy Lyman Paine
(m. 1828; died 1828)
Mary Greene Hubbard
(m. 1829; died 1837)
Julia Overing Boit
(m. 1846)
ChildrenRussell Sturgis
Lucy Lyman Paine Sturgis
Howard Overing Sturgis
Parent(s)Nathaniel Russell Sturgis
Susannah Thomsen Parkman
RelativesRussell Sturgis (grandfather)
Julian Codman (grandson)
Richard Clipston Sturgis (grandson)

Russell Sturgis (July 7, 1805 – November 2, 1887) was a Boston merchant active in the China trade, and later head of Baring Brothers in London.

Early life

Sturgis was born Nathaniel Russell Sturgis Jr., in

United States Consul to the Philippines.[3]

His paternal grandparents were the merchant

Sturgis entered Harvard College at the age of twelve and graduated in 1823 as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society.[5] He studied law at Northampton, Massachusetts.[6]

Career

Russell and Sturgis's former office along the Pasig River in Manila, 1900.

In 1828, he changed his name legally to Russell Sturgis.

Russell & Co.), and in 1842 he became a full partner.[9]

In 1844, Sturgis retired to Boston to rejoin his children who had been sent there to school after their mother's 1837 death in Manila. He married for a third time, to Julia Overing Boit, and decided to return to China with his family in 1851. The steamer on which they crossed the Atlantic arrived too late to catch the onward ship from London. In their interval there, Sturgis was asked by the senior member of Barings Bank to become a partner.[9] He accepted and ultimately became head of the firm, succeeding fellow American Joshua Bates (husband to Sturgis' cousin Lucretia).[6][a]

In England, he lived at 17

Mall Galleries), and Givons Grove in Leatherhead. Although he never renounced his U.S. citizenship, Sturgis did not return to the United States and died in England in 1887.[12]

Personal life

Sturgis married three times. He married his first wife, Lucy Lyman Paine (1805–1828), on April 3, 1828.[6] Lucy was a daughter of Henry Paine and his wife Olive Lyman. Her paternal grandfather was Robert Treat Paine, a lawyer, politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first Attorney General of Massachusetts.[13] Lucy died, aged 22, on August 20, 1828, just four months after their marriage.[6]

On September 28, 1829, Sturgis married his second wife, Mary Greene Hubbard (1806–1837), a daughter of John Hubbard and his wife Jane Parkinson. She bore four children, the youngest of whom (Mary Greene Sturgis) died in infancy:.[5] The other three, all of whom were members of the Codman family, were:

After the death of his wife Mary, Sturgis married, for a third time, to Julia Overing Boit (1823–1888) on June 4, 1846.[19] She was the daughter of John Boit Jr.,[20] one of the first Americans involved in the maritime fur trade.[21] and his wife Eleanor Auchmuty Jones. With Julia, Sturgis had four more children:

Sturgis died at his country seat in Leatherhead, Surrey on November 2, 1887. His widow also died there, less than a year later, on May 31, 1888.[6]

Descendants

Through his daughter Lucy, he was a grandfather of Anne McMasters Codman (1864–1944) (who married Henry Bromfield Cabot), and lawyer Julian Codman (1870–1932), who was a vigorous opponent of Prohibition and was involved with the Anti-Imperialist League.[27] Julian married Nora Chadwick, a daughter of Dr. James Read Chadwick.[28]

Through his eldest son, Russell, Sturgis was a grandfather of architect Richard Clipston Sturgis (1860–1951) who was successor to his uncle's practice. He married Esther Mary Ogden and was the father of Richard Clipston Sturgis Jr., also an architect.[29]

References

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