The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 635
Ireland, and Emeline the dau. of Perrin and Hannah (Utley)
Ross, natives of Connecticut, who came to western Pennsylvania
at an early day. The father of Perrin was killed in the Massacre
of Wyoming. {See No. 216.)
After his marriage, Mr. Sterling went to Minnesota and, Sept.
1, 1873, went to Owatonna to teach in the graded school. Thence
he went to act as principal of a newly organized independent school
at Garden City. The following two years he was principal of the
Pleasant Grove school at Mankato. A position in the State
Normal school was offered him but was declined in favor of the
superintendency of public schools at St. Peter. This position he
held two years, when he went into the retail marble business in
Mankato. He removed to Minneapolis, where he engaged in the
real estate business in which he has since continued.
In 1887 Mr. Sterling was elected to the city council for a two-
year term. His fellow members chose him as vice-president,
and upon the resignation of the president he was promoted by the
council to fill the vacancy. In the absence of the mayor Mr. Ster-
ling acted in that capacity.
Children
2928 Thayer Dawson Sterling, b. in Garden City, Sept. 20,
1874 ; res., Minneapolis.
2929 Ruth Sterling, b. in St. Peter, Minn., May 31, 1878;
unm. (1906) ; res. Minneapolis.
2930 John Adoniram Sterling, b. in Minneapolis, May 29, 1885.
2931 Faith Sterling, b. in Minneapolis, Mar. 15, 1887.
1418 CHARLES L. STERLING {brother of the above), b.
in Willoughby, Ohio, June 24, 1850; m. at Richmond, N. Y.,
May 10, 1876, Alice M. Reed, b. in Richmond, May 17, 1851, dau.
of John and Charlotte (Hoppough) Reed. John b. in Richmond,
Dec. 9, 1818, d. at Gordon, Neb., Aug. 9, 1886; Charlotte b. in
N. J., Aug. 24, 1823, d. in Richmond, Mar. 10, 1901. Mr. Ster-
ling is a farmer at Fairfield, Jefferson Co., la.
Children, born in Lima, N. Y.
2932 Charlotte B. Sterling, b. May 14, 1877 ; m. Jan. 12, 1898,
Lester P. Stedman of Utica, la.
2933 J. Reed Sterling, b. June 14, 1879; m. Feb. 14, 1900,
Lizzie Pratt of Winchester, la.