Ephraim Tanner Sturtevant (July 28, 1803 – December 12, 1881) was an American professor, planter, and politician. He was the father of Julia Tuttle, known as the "Mother of Miami". Sturtevant, son of Warren and Lucy (Tanner) Sturtevant, was born in Warren, Connecticut, July 28, 1803. In 1816, his family removed to the Western Reserve, and settled in Tallmadge, Ohio, from which place he entered college. He graduated from Yale College in 1826. On his death, his daughter Julia Tuttle inherited and relocated to his land in Florida, where she would eventually found the city of Miami.