Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Stalcup, S. 1843 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   S. STALCUP, Trustee of Richland Township, and a prosperous merchant of
Bloomfield, first began in business for himself in Bloomfield in April, 1869.
with an invoiced stock of drugs of about $500 value. He has ever since conducted
this business in the same room where he first began, but from a diminutive stock
of goods, his increasing trade has enabled him to add a full line of clocks,
watches and jewelry in 1877, which amounts to $1,500, while he carries a $3,500
stock of drugs. In both branches, his annual trade reaches $13,000. In every
sense of the word, Mr. Stalcup is self-made, as the following sketch indicates:
He was born in Highland Township January 24, 1843, and is a son of Bennett
Stalcup. Being raised in the country, he only received limited educational
advantages, and July 4, 1861, ran away from home and enlisted as a private in
Company C, First Indiana Heavy Artillery. After leaving camp at Baltimore, he,
with the company, rendezvoused on Ship Island, afterward moving under Gen.
Butler against Forts Jackson and Philippi, and from thence to New Orleans. He
was next engaged in the battle of Baton Rouge, siege of Port Hudson and then
back to New Orleans, via Baton Rouge. During the remainder of the war, Mr.
Stalcup was engaged in guard and fort duty, the only deviation from this being
the time he was a participant in the siege of Mobile. From Third Sergeant he was
promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant, and the spring of 1865 was commissioned
Second Lieutenant. From the close of the war until he embarked in business for
himself, he was principally engaged in clerking. Mr. Stalcup is a Republican,
and a dimitted member of the I. O. O. F., F. & A. M., K. of P. fraternities. In
1869, he was married to Maggie Stropes, who died in 1872, leaving one son—John
B. In 1875, he was united in wedlock to his present wife, Alice Henderson, by
whom he is the father of two children—Claudius and Ethel.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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