page_title: Jonathan Sturges (businessman)
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Jonathan Sturges (businessman) / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Title from Calendar of Emmet Collection. EM11782
context_page_description: Jonathan Sturges was an American businessman, arts patron, and philanthropist.
context_section_description: On October 25, 1828, Sturges was married to Mary Pemberton Cady (1806–1894), the daughter of Ebenezer Pemberton Cady (a grandson of Ebenezer Pemberton) and Elizabeth Smith Cady. Together, they had a house in New York City and a summer residence on Mill Plain Road in Fairfield, a Gothic Revival home designed in 1840 by English architect Joseph Collins Wells, today known as the Jonathan Sturges House (the property remains in the family).  Mary and Jonathan were the parents of five children, including: 
  Virginia Reed Sturges (1830–1902), who married railroad executive William H. Osborn in 1853.
  Frederick Sturges (1833–1917), who married Mary Reed Fuller (1834–1886), daughter of Dudley B. Fuller.
  Amelia Sturges (1835–1862), who married J. P. Morgan in 1861, but died of tuberculosis soon after. In Morgan's will, he left $100,000 in her honor.
  Arthur Pemberton Sturges (1842–1866), who entered Princeton Theological Seminary, but died before graduating.
  Henry Cady Sturges (1846–1922), who married Sarah Adams MacWhorter (1864–1959), daughter of George Gray MacWhorter.
  Sturges died on November 28, 1874 at his residence, 40 East 36th Street in Manhattan. After a funeral at his residence, and at the Reformed Church at Fifth Avenue and 29th Street, he was buried at Fairfield East Cemetery in Fairfield, Connecticut. In his will, he appointed his on Frederick and his son-in-law William Osborn as executors and trustees.
caption: The late Jonathan Sturges, a celebrated merchant and citizen of New York, 1861-c. 1880
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