Clay County Family Files
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Sterling Family Files
If you have any information concerning the Sterling family that you would like to contribute, I will be happy to add it.
The following was published in the Clay Center Times a week after James S. Sterling's death in 1900. It is not signed but I believe it was written by the editor of the paper, D. A. Valentine:
In the early days, Jim Sterling was a political power in Clay and was easily the strongest
man in the county for years and years. Two terms sheriff, two terms treasurer, he helped
make and unmake congressmen, elect and defeat state officers, choose and refuse county
officers, until it was almost a necessity to have him in order to carry the county.
He knew everybody, everybody knew him. But last week witnesses his untimely death and
subsequent burial. It is hard to realize he is gone, impossible to believe that a man
may walk the business streets of Clay Center from one end to the other and back without
meeting him. In all matters where friendship ruled, he was stanch, true and steady.
Scarce any lengths were to long for him to undertake in the service of a friend. This
writer feels personal loss. However, the old guard, of whom Sterling was among the first,
is rapidly passing away and soon when the roll is called it will be responded to by an
entirely new set of men; may they be as worthy and well qualified and as patriotic.
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