Edward Lewis Sturtevant (1842–98)

American agronomist. Graduated from Bowdoin, 1863; Harvard Medical School, 1866. In 1867, with his two brothers, purchased Waushakum Farm, South Framingham, Massachusetts, which became renowned for agricultural experiment and innovation. Co-editor of the Scientific Farmer, 1876–9. First director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 1882–7. Author of The dairy cow: a monograph on the Ayrshire breed (1875), and Sturtevant’s notes on edible plants (1919). Developed the Waushakum variety of yellow flint corn, and the New Christiana muskmelon.