BIOGRAPHY: Stacy, H. T.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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     H. T. STACY.  --  Mr. Stacy was born at DeKalb, St. Lawrence 
County New York, January 9, 1820.  He taught school for two years in 
his native county; went to Ohio and taught there in 1844, and in the 
Spring of 1845, at the close of his school went to Illinois, and the 
year following was married to Miss Amelia L. Donaldson, July 1, 1846, 
at Dover, Illinois.  Engaged in mercantile business until the Fall of 
1855, and then started for Iowa, traveled many portions of it, and 
finally in Mitchell County selected about twenty-seven hundred acres of 
land in the interest of his brother and for himself, and has since 
resided at Stacyville, which he laid out in 1856, and for him it was 
named.   He has seen the hardships and trials attendant on a pioneer 
life in Northern Iowa, and now lives in the full enjoyment of a well-
spent and successful life.  He is at present engaged in carrying on a 
farm of seven hundred acres - four hundred acres under cultivation - 
and with his son - R. F. Stacy - a general country store at Stacyville.