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Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1891–1970) was the youngest of six children of Alfred Henry and Harriet (Morse) Sturtevant. His grandfather, Julian Sturtevant,was a Yale graduate, a Congregational minister, and one of the founders and later president of Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Sturtevant’s father taught mathematics for a while at that college, but later took up farming, first in Illinois and later in southern Alabama, where the family moved when Sturtevant was seven years old. Sturtevant went to a one-room country school and later to a public high school in Mobile.
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Lewis, E.B. (2004). Remembering Sturtevant. In: Lipshitz, H.D. (eds) Genes, Development and Cancer. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8981-9_34
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