Clark M. Sturtevant

Next to settle on Mercer Slough was Civil War veteran Clark Merrill Sturtevant (1840-1911), who acquired 160 acres as part of his compensation for fighting in the war. Sturtevant had to break seven beaver dams in 1873 when he paddled to the upper end of the slough to reach his property

During the winter he earned money by trapping; in one year he captured 130 mink, four otters, and many muskrats.

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Lake Bellevue, also called Lake Sturtevant, is a small lake inside the city limits of Bellevue, Washington. Along with Phantom Lake and Larsen Lake, it is one of three small lakes inside the city, which also borders Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish. Sturtevant Creek, a tributary of Kelsey Creek, has its origin at Lake Bellevue. 

When Clark Merrill Sturtevant was born on 30 September 1840, in Peacham, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, his father, Church Sturtevant, was 36 and his mother, Hannah H. Brown, was 32. 

He married Mary Elizabeth Hall on 6 January 1865, in Illinois, United States. 

He died on 12 June 1911, in Steilacoom, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.