Nathan Darius Sturgis

1863 - 1942  (79 years)

• Name	Nathan Darius Sturgis
  Birth	4 Jan 1863	Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Sep 1942	Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Moravian Cemetery, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I9413	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Julius Ferdinand Sturgis,   b. 15 Feb 1835, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 4 Oct 1897, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jane Lint,   b. 1 Jun 1836   d. 14 Nov 1876 (Age 40 years)
  Family ID	F2713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anna Eitnier Showers,   b. 16 Jun 1875, Lexington, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 30 Jun 1964, Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 89 years)
  Children	1. Lottie J Sturgis,   b. 12 Jun 1895, Pennsylvania, USA d. Feb 1982, Akron, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 86 years)   2. Grace C Sturgis,   b. 5 May 1900, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 22Jan 1967, York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 66 years)   3. Mary Elizabeth Sturgis,   b. 6 Oct 1906, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 22 Mar 1987, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years)   4. Nathan D Sturgis, Jr,   b. 11 Nov 1909, Pennsylvania, USA d. 20 Sep 1920, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 10 years)
  Family ID	F2721	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Magdalena Stauffer,   b. 19 Oct 1867   d. 28 Nov 1905 (Age 38 years)
  Children	1. Victor Stauffer Sturgis,   b. 29 Jan 1887, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 12 Aug 1952 (Age 65 years) + 2. Ellen Stauffer Sturgis,   b. 21 Aug 1892, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 26 Sep 1970, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA (Age 78 years)   3. Frank Stauffer Sturgis,   b. 28 Oct 1892, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 7 Mar 1964, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F3885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  PA Death Certificate #82210 - Son of Julius F. Sturgis and Sarah (Lint) Sturgis. Summary news article in the Lititz Record Express, published Thursday, 27 Sep 2012 - original publication published in the Morning's Record, Thursday, 1 Oct 1942. "N. D. Sturgis Remembered - Death ended the career of Nathan D. Sturgis on Friday morning. Born into the pretzel business, he followed in his father's footsteps as manufacturer of pretzels here, until his retirement three years ago, when a younger brother Lewis took over the business. Preceding him to that realm of new life are many kin, who like himself, spent a long life in the same business. The name Sturgis and the pretzel business are closely woven together in the long history of this enterprise. If there is a secret in the process of making pretzels it is in the yeast. N. D. Sturgis used the same formula of making his own yeast as handed down to him from his father. He shunned patent yeast, maintaining that it didn't produce the distinct flavor for which the Lititz product was noted. He stuck to his guns until the last in baking pretzels on the old-fashioned hearth oven when many other manufacturers installed the stream-lined rotary ovens. As did his father before him he refused to add shortening to the dough, when many other bakers took this shortcut to secure a crisp pretzel. "Why make a cracker out of a pretzel," was his slogan. Nathan Sturgis took over the business in 1904. The manufacture of pretzels in Lititz dates back 132 years and better. Funeral services were held in the Spacht Funeral Home Monday afternoon. Interment was made in the Moravian Cemetery." NOTE: Photo accompanied article but looked to grainy to scan and add at Find A Grave. Original full article can be obtained from the Lititz (PA) Public Library and may contain more details and the picture quality may be better.

  
  

• Sources

  [S209] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1910; Census Place: Lititz, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1355; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0104; FHL microfilm: 1375368 (Reliability: 0). [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97943736/nathan-d-sturgis.