BIOGRAPHY: Ingham Stubley; Newburgh, Orange co., New York

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Portrait and Biographical Record of Rockland and Orange Counties New York
Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens of the Counties.
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United
States.
New York and Chicago; Chapman Publishing Co., 1895

INGHAM STUBLEY, of Newburgh, is Secretary of the Republican City Committee, is
a member of the County Committee, and is Clerk of the Orange County Board of
Super-visors. Thus it can be seen that he is very active in his party, and
enjoys the good opinion of those who are associated with him in the
advancement of its interests. In Masonic circles he is also highly esteemed,
and for ten years was Secretary of Newburgh Lodge No. 309. He is also a Past
Grand in Acme Lodge No 469, I. O. O. F.

Mr. Stubley, who was born in Dewsbury, York-shire, England, March 8, 1852, is
a stanch friend of his adopted country, and is a thorough-going American in
all his ideas. His grandfather, William, and his father, William, Jr., were
born in the same locality in Yorkshire and learned wool-carding in the mills.
During his last years the grandfather was engaged in the grocery business in
Dewsbury, in which place his death occurred. He was a local minister in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and did valiant service in the Master's cause.
William Stubley, Jr., was married in England to Miss Mary Ingham, daughter of
George Ingham, who was a fancy weaver in the Dewsbury mills. Mrs. Stubley died
in England in 186o, leaving three children: Sarah now the wife of Joshua
Halliday, of Coffeyville, Kan.; John, deceased; and our subject. The father
married a second time, but his wife died in 1868, soon after he had brought
her to America. The family settled in Newburgh that year, Mr. Stubley engaging
in his former trade as a carder in the Hargnmalor Mills. In 1880, in
companywith his son, he embarked in the business which is now carried on by
the latter, that of dealing in wholesale rags, which are sold to paper mills.
The firm name for several years was William Stubley & Son. The senior member
made several trips to England, and at the close of a busy and useful life was
summoned to his final rest, February 1, 1894, aged sixty-nine years. He was a
member of the Episcopal Church, and politically advocated the principles of
the same party as does his son.

The first sixteen years of the life of Ingham Stubley were spent in his native
land, his education being acquired in a boarding-school. In his fourteenth
year he entered the woolen-mill under the employ of his father, and in 1868
left Liver-pool on the steamer "France," reaching New York City at the end of
a thirteen-days voyage. For a short time he resided in Boston, and later went
to Lowell, where he found employment with the firm of R. Kitson & Son, to
learn the machinist's trade. In December, 1868, he came to this city and
worked in the woolen-mill of Hargnmalor as a carder. At home he took up the
study of bookkeeping and was soon promoted, being placed in the office, and
for ten years was confidential bookkeeper of the firm. Then, going to New York
City, he found a position as a book-keeper there, but at the end of a year and
a-half embarked in business for himself in company with his father. The
location of the old firm of William Stubley & Son, as it is still known, is at
Nos. 127 and 129 Broadway. The building is constructed of brick and has a
frontage of forty-four feet, is fifty-four feet in depth and is two stories
high. The rags are baled with a press for the purpose and are sold in large
quantities to the trade.

In 1874 Mr. Stubley was united in marriage with Nancy J. Dickerson, of
Newburgh. Both she and her father, Abram Dickerson, are natives of Orange
County, the latter being the owner of a good farm. Our subject and wife have a
pleasant home at No. 35 Johnson Street, the residence having been built by Mr.
Stubley. They have two sons: William, who graduated from the Newburgh Academy,
and is now in business with his father; and Charles. Mr. Stubley is entitled
to credit for the way in which he has steadily risen from a position of
poverty to one of prosperity and influence in the community. In the best sense
of the word he is a self-made man, one who has depended upon his exertions,
and is therefore not indebted to others. He is an active worker in the
Episcopal Church of the Corner Stone, of which he is serving as Trustee.