Jonathan Sturges was an American businessman, arts patron, and philanthropist.
Portrait of Sturges by Asher Brown Durand, c. 1840
Kindred Spirits, commissioned by Sturges as a gift for William Cullen Bryant in gratitude for the nature poet's eulogy to Thomas Cole.
A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains, by Thomas Cole, 1839.
The Sturges House in Fairfield, Connecticut.
William H. Osborn
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William Henry Osborn was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was a railroad tycoon who, as head of the Illinois Central Railroad and later the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, b
Jonathan Sturges (businessman)
…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…
Osborn’s country home, Castle Rock, 2009