The Sterling genealogy

402 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
b. in Boston, Mass., Dec. 17, 1818, dau. of the Rev.
James Manning and Tamma (Thompson) Winchell.
They removed to Yreka, Cal. She d. in Troy, N. Y.,
Aug. 6, 1866. He d. at Cadiz, Fla. after a long ill-
ness, Dec. 31, 1893 ; buried at Sharon. No issue.
701 Avis Canfield Sterling, b. June 16, 1821 ; m. June 15,
1847, Frederick Sterns Bogue of Albany, N. Y., b.
Apr. 16, 1821, of Scotch ancestry. He was a colonel
in the Commissary Department during the Civil War
previously a merchant in New York City. He d.
June 20, 1865. Mrs. Bogue was still living, the last
of her family, at Toronto, Can., in 1902. No issue.
702 tjohn Canfield Sterling, b. Dec. 7, 1822; m. 1st, Ellen H.
Lattilla, 2d, Caroline S. Upson.
262 THE HON. MICAH STERLING (brother of the above), b.
in Sterling City, Conn., Nov. 5, 1784 ; m. 1st, Elizabeth Bronson, b.
at Middleburg, Conn., May 6, 1795, dau. of Ethiel Bronson, one
of the prominent men of the early days of Jefferson Co., and Hep-
zibah (Hopkins) Bronson of Rutland, N. Y., who d. in Watertown,
N. Y., Sept. 5, 1831 ; m. 2d, Aug. 6, 1833, in Albany, N. Y., Ruth
Benedict, b. Feb. 9, 1801, dau. of Uriah Benedict of Milton, Sara-
toga Co., N. Y., and Sarah Mead (Rockwell) Benedict of Ballston
Spa, N. Y.
Micah Sterling entered Yale College in 1800 and graduated in
1804. He was a classmate of John C. Calhoun, of whom he was a
lifelong friend and correspondent. He attended a course of lec-
tures in Litchfield, Conn., and afterward studied in the law office
of Judge Williams of Utica, N. Y., and after residing a year in
Adams, N. Y., where his brother Joseph had settled and where he
formed a partnership of brief duration with Thomas Skinner, he
removed upon his admission to the Common Pleas to Watertown,
Jefferson Co., N. Y., about 1810, where he resided until his death.
Mr. Sterling took a prominent part in all matters pertaining
to the welfare and development of his adopted town and county.
He was one of the original stockholders of the Black River Naviga-
tion Co., organized June 5, 1810; was chosen the first treasurer of
the village in May, 1816; fire warden in 1817; judge advocate
for the 12th Division of Infty. for Jefferson Co. in 1819 (Military
Record of the State of N. Y., 1903) ; one of the board of trustees