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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: americanaunivers14newy (find matches) Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher: New York&#160;: Scientific American Compiling Dept. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: gaged in thei ndustry; the apparatus of all kinds employed was valued at about $90,000, and included 500 nets having a total length of 137,500 fathoms, and S46 boats and vessels of all kinds. Besides the 2,428,616 pounds of flesh valued at $124,440, the 10.363 sturgeons caught yielded 1,948 kegs or 262.974 pounds of caviar, valued at $70,738. In 1899 the fisheries of the Pacific coast of California and Oregon produced 295,344 pounds, valued at $15,333. During the same year the sturgeon fisheries of the Great Lakes yielded 1,129,348 pounds of flesh valued at $81,085 and 47,470 pounds of caviar valued at $30,510. The sturgeon fisheries of all parts of the country are in serious danger of being destroyed, but the above data indicate that the evils of overfishing, etc., have been most harmful in the Delaware River. Several attempts to propagate the sturgeon artificially have been made by the Fish Commission, but the peculiar difficulties resulting from the methods of the fisheries and the mode of repro Text Appearing After Image: RUSSELL SILRC. IS STURGEON BAY —STURT dtjction of this fish have up to the present proved insurmountable. Consult: Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle America, Vol. I. (Washington 1896); Ryder, Sturgeons and Sturgeon Industries of the Eastern United States (Washington 1896); Cobb, Sturgeon Fishery of the Delaware River, Rep. U. S. Fish Commission for 1899. Sturgeon Bay, Wis., city, county seat of Door County; on Sturgeon Bay and on the canal which connects Green Bay with Lake Michigan by a short route. It is about 40 miles northeast of the city of Green Bay. The bay is a good harbor about eight miles long and from one to three miles wide. The city is in an agricultural region, formerly an extensive lumbering region. There is yet (1904) a large amount of lumbering. Sturgeon Bay exports large quantities of grain and lumber. It has one state bank with a capital of $25,000, and one private bank. Pop. (1890) 2,195; (ipoo) 3,372. Sturgis, sterjis, Julian, English novelist: b. Boston, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Russell Sturgis was an American architect and art critic
  of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870.
  Sturgis was born in Baltimore County, Maryland. His parents were Russell Sturgis, a New York shipping merchant living temporarily in Baltimore, and Margaret Dawes Sturgis.
  His paternal grandparents were Thomas Sturgis, who served as a Private in Captain Micah Hamlin's Company, Colonel Simeon Cary's Regiment and was the younger brother of the merchant Russell Sturgis, and Elizabeth Sturgis. Sturgis is, therefore, a second cousin to the merchant and banker Russell Sturgis.
  Educated in the public schools of New York City, Sturgis was graduated from the Free Academy in New York in 1856, and later studied architecture under Leopold Eidlitz. For about a year and a half he also studied in Munich. In 1862 he returned to the United States. He was associated with Peter Bonnett Wight from 1863 to 1868 and then practiced alone until 1880.
context_section_description: Russell Sturgis (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; October 16, 1836 – February 11, 1909) was an American architect and art critic
  of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870.
  Sturgis was born in Baltimore County, Maryland.  His parents were Russell Sturgis, a New York shipping merchant living temporarily in Baltimore, and Margaret Dawes (Appleton) Sturgis. 
  His paternal grandparents were Thomas Sturgis (1755-1821), who served as a Private in Captain Micah Hamlin's Company, Colonel Simeon Cary's Regiment (1776) and was the younger brother of the merchant Russell Sturgis (1750-1826), and Elizabeth (Jackson) Sturgis (1768-1844)).  Sturgis is, therefore, a second cousin to the merchant and banker Russell Sturgis (1805–1887).
  Educated in the public schools of New York City, Sturgis was graduated from the Free Academy in New York (now the College of the City of New York) in 1856, and later studied architecture under Leopold Eidlitz. For about a year and a half he also studied in Munich. In 1862 he returned to the United States. He was associated with Peter Bonnett Wight from 1863 to 1868 and then practiced alone until 1880.
  in 1863 Sturgis together with the painter John William Hill, art critic Clarence Cook, and geologist and art critic Clarence King helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art which published a journal The New Path.  The articles written by Sturgis provided an early glimpse of his critical interest in art and architecture, made amply clear in his later writings.
  On May 26, 1864, he married Sarah Maria Barney, daughter of Danford N. Barney of New York City. Her father served as president of Wells Fargo & Company from 1853 to 1866. Russell and Sarah Sturgis were the parents of four sons and three daughters, of whom one son died in infancy.
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