Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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ANDREW JUDSON STURTEVANT, JR.� One of the rising and 
successful young business men of the San Joaquin Valley is Andrew Judson 
Sturtevant. Jr., whose enterprising and executive ability have led to success in 
every branch of business that he has undertaken. Mr. Sturtevant is a native 
son of California, born at Vallejo, September 15, 1886. He was a student at 
the Oakland High School and also attended the University of California at 
Berkeley, graduating with the class of 1911 from the agricultural depart- 
ment of that institution with the degree of B. S. 

Coming to Fresno County, Mr. Sturtevant rented a 200-acre alfalfa and 
stock ranch near Sanger for two years, and then took up research work for 
the California Development Board, making an agricultural survey of the 
crop conditions of Fresno County in detail, covering all the varieties of 
products. When the peach growers resolved to form their own marketing 
organization, he became active in securing members and funds with which to 
finance the proposed association. Later, when success was assured, he went 
East for the purpose of developing a sales organization, after which he was 
appointed general sales-manager for the California Peach Growers, Inc. He 
is himself one of the large peach growers of the San Joaquin Valley. He rents 
two peach orchards in Stanislaus County, of twenty-four and forty acres 
respectively, and is the owner of a ninety-four-acre peach orchard near Mo- 
desto and a 200-acre peach orchard eighteen miles from Fresno, at Borden. 
The marriage of Mr. Sturtevant united him with Miss Roda M. Mitchell, 
a native of North Dakota, who was brought up at Oakland. Two children 
are the result of their union, Andrew J., Jr., and Robert Mitchell. Mr. 
Sturtevant is a member of the Commercial Club of Fresno, and during the 
Liberty Loan campaign in that city was an active worker for the cause, 
being one of the four-minute men who made speeches in the theaters and 
other public places.