Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Stilwell, H. H. 1830 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com August 25, 2006, 4:46 am Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881) H. H. Stilwell, attorney, Covington, whose name stands prominent among the list of Fountain county's oldest attorneys, is a native of Montgomery county, Indiana, where he was born March 10, 1830. He is the son of Jeremiah and Didama (Halloway) Stilwell, who became residents of Montgomery county as early as 1826. His early life was spent on his father's farm, where he was kept hard at work and had no chances for obtaining an education. His chances were so meager in this respect that he was sixteen years old before he had learned to read. He made the most of the opportunities that were afforded him, and though he remained on the farm he had progressed so far in his studies at the age of twenty-one years that he was able to teach a common school. He continued teaching and studying for about two years, then engaged for a short time in the grain trade, and then tried the dry-goods business, in the capacity of a salesman. Through these different changes he had continued to study, and after carefully consider-the question, and by the advice of friends, he concluded to enter the legal profession. With this object in view he entered Asbury University, and graduated from the law department of that institution February 5, 1857. Returning to Crawfordsville he was formally admitted to practice at the Indiana bar March 5, 1857, and continued it until l860. In January of that year he removed to Covington, where he has since resided and practiced with success, both financially and professionally. In 1865 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Indiana. The first year of his residence in Fountain county he was honored by the republican party by being elected to the office of prosecuting attorney, the term being for two years, and was reelected to the same office for another two years. Four years after he became a resident of Covington Mr. Stilwell was alone in the practice of law. His first partnership was with Mr. S. F. Wood, with whom he was associated for eight years. He and his brother, Thos. H., were then together for three years, and then for four years Mr. Jno. B. Martin was with him, and was dissolved in 1879, since which time he has been alone. Mr. Stilwell's specialty in the practice is probate business. In this line he probably does as much as the balance of Covington's attorneys. In 1861 he married Miss Clara V. Knight, whose people were among the early and prominent pioneers of Montgomery county. They have one son. Additional Comments: Troy Township Extracted from: HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY, TOGETHER WITH HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY, GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES. BY H. W. BECKWITH, OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO. WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS. CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS. 1881. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/fountain/bios/stilwell664nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb