The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 479
526 OLIVER LORD STERLING (brother of the above), b. in
Sterling City, Sept. 29, 1812; m. at Cincinnatus, Cortland Co.,
N. Y., Aug. 31, 1834, Jane Louisa
MacWhorter, b. at Cincinnatus, Apr.
28, 1814, dau. of Dr. John and
Catherine (Smith) MacWhorter of
Cincinnatus.
Oliver L. Sterling was by trade a
harness maker, although he followed
it as an occupation for but a short
time in his young manhood at Lima,
N. Y., and Cincinnatus. About 1856
he removed with his family to the
vicinity of Kalamazoo, Mich., where
he passed the remainder of his life as a
farmer and nurseryman and as col-
porteur for the American Bible So-
ciety. He d. at Kalamazoo, May 8,
1891 ; Mrs. Jane Sterling d. in Cleveland, O., Oct. 6, 1878.
Children
Oliver Lord Sterling
1461 tAlbertus Lord Sterling, b. Nov. 19, 1835; m. Mary E.
Lounsbury.
1462 tMary Jeannette Sterling, b. Apr. 28, 1837; m. E. I.
Baldwin.
1463 t John MacWhorter Sterling, b. Aug. 13, 1840; m. Sabina
Campbell.
1464 Ellen Genevieve Sterling, b. Feb. 10, 1842; m. John C.
Goodale, live at Kalamazoo.
527 GEORGE STOW STERLING (brother of the above), b. in
German (now Pitcher), Chenango Co., N. Y., Apr. 15, 1815; m.
1st, May 21, 1843, Martha Ann Backus, b. Dec. 21, 1821, dau. of
and Martha Backus. Martha, the mother, d. Apr. 16, 1855,
aged 65. Martha Sterling d. at Lima, N. Y., Mar. 20, 1855 ; he
m. 2d, July 15, 1856, Emily Asenath Carter, b. Apr. 22, 1832, dau.
of Amasa Carter (b. Oct. 12, 1805, d. Jan. 2, 1843), who m. Jan.
4, 1830, Hannah Emmons (b. July 9, 1810, d. at Marshall, Mich.,
Jan. 21, 1887).