Theodore Stickle Biography, Tuscola County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 994-995


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THEODORE STICKLE, a farmer residing in Koylton Township, Tuscola 
County, was born in 1838 in Dutchess County, N. Y., and is a son of 
Henry I. and Sophia Stickle. The father, who was born in 1800 in the 
same county which became the birthplace of his son, was reared on a 
farm and always followed agricultural pursuits. In 1851 he removed his 
family to another part of his native State and there passed away in 
1876. His wife was the daughter of Henry Coopernail, of Dutchess 
County, and survived her husband five years. This worthy couple held 
membership in the Lutheran Church.

   The paternal grandfather of our subject was Andrew Stickle, who was 
born in Dutchess County, N. Y., and led the quiet, uneventful life of a 
farmer. Great-grandfather Nicholas Stickle was one of seven brothers 
who emigrated from Germany and enlisted in the Revolutionary War, one 
being killed while in service. Theodore Stickle, of this sketch, began 
life for himself at the age of nineteen years, settling on a farm in 
Wayne County, N. Y., where he remained until 1856. At that time he 
removed West, and coming to Michigan, settled in Genesee County, where 
he remained on a farm until he came to his present home in Tuscola 
County in 1881.

   Upon his arrival in this county Mr. Stickle purchased one hundred 
and twenty acres of timber land and in the lapse of ten years we see 
the forest swept before his ax and instead of the mighty pine claiming 
the soil we find the most flourishing crops. In 1860 Mr. Stickle was 
married to Clarissa, the daughter of Paul and Clara Scovel, and of this 
union six children have been born, three of whom died young. The 
surviving ones are Nelson, Albert and William.




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