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Thomas L. Sturgeon (St. Louis, Missouri, lumberman)

b. 1824? d. 1875-07-11

St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, lumberman. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Sturgeon and Eliza Tyler Sturgeon. Lumberman in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in St. Louis in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis Ward 10, p. 434.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis Ward 10, p. 353A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis Ward 7, p. 595A.

"Death of Thomas L. Sturgeon," The St. Louis Republican (St. Louis, MO), July 14, 1875, p. 4.

Richard Edwards and M. Hopewell, Edward's Great West and Her Commercial Metropolis, Embracing a General View of the West, and a Complete History of St. Louis, from the Landing of Ligueste, in 1764, to the Present Time; with Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Old Settlers, and Many of the Most Prominent Business Men, (St. Louis, MO: Edward's Monthly, 1860) p. 468.

John Robert Hume, History of the Hume Family (St. Louis, MO: Hume Genealogical Association, 1903), pp. 174-177.

Citation

Sturgeon, Thomas L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207460 (November 12, 2026).

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