Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Stickney, Edmund M. May 12, 1844 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Cortez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004939 April 17, 2009, 4:21 pm Author: Chapman Brothers EDMUND M. STICKNEY, lumberman and manufacturer, residing at Paris, was born in McHenry co., Ill., May 12, 1844. His father, George Stickney, was a native of Jeffrey, New Hampshire, where he was born June 26, 1809. He came to Chicago June 20, 1835, and went to McHenry, Ill., in the fall of the same year, where he has since resided, in the pursuit of farming. The mother, Sylvia M. (Beckly) Stickney, was born Feb. 26, 1819, at Granby, Conn., and died in October, 1879. They were married at Nunda, Ill., Oct. 27, 1839. Mr. Stickney acquired a fair education at the public schools, and pursued a full commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's College at Chicago, and was graduated with the class of 1864. He remained under the charge of his father until the time of his majority. In the fall of 1865 he went to Chicago, and was employed there a few months as book-keeper. In January, 1866, he came to Mecosta Co., Mich., and in company with Charles Shafer and William P. Ontonye, started the first mercantile venture at Paris, Feb. 20, 1866, continuing the enterprize under the firm name of E. M. Stickney & Co., two years, and alone until 1877, when he purchased the water-power he now owns, with the saw and grist mill built by Shales & Fitting in 1867, on Parish Creek. He built the present saw-mill in 1882-3. He saws about 15, 000 feet of lumber daily, and owns 35 acres of timber land, whereon is the site of his mills, and 40 acres of land in Green Tp. He was married May 18, 1870, to Mary Todd, a native of Yorkshire, England, born May 18, 1854. Their three children are Nettie M., Carrie A. and George E. Mr. Stickney has been prominent in the public affairs of his village and township. He has served as Postmaster and Town Clerk 10 years, and has officiated as Justice of the Peace 11 years, being the present incumbent of that office, and is also Notary Public. Politically he was formerly a Republican, but, since 1878 has voted the Greenback ticket. A portrait of Mr. Stickney is given in this volume. Additional Comments: 1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/mecosta/bios/stickney557nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb