Biographies:  John E. STILLMAN, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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John E. Stillman settled in Eau Claire in its earliest days.  He was the 
first teacher in the first public school.  The building was erected in the 
village of Eau Claire in the winter of 1856-57.  It was of green, rough 
boards, located on what is now Barstow street, near Grand avenue, East, 
and in dimension was 16 by 24 feet.  As schoolmaster Mr. Stillman was 
succeeded the following summer by Miss Mary Arnold.  At that time there 
were fifteen pupils.  Later Mr. Stillman engaged in the practice of law.  
Served as county judge from 1863 to 1865.

In 1860 he married Miss Mary Lashier, of Fall River, Wis., to whom there 
were born three sons and two daughters.  In 1872 he was practicing law 
under the firm name of Stillman & Edwards.  In 1873, on account of ill 
health, he removed to Florida where, with other Eau Claire men, he helped 
establish the town of Orange City.  In 1882 Mr. Stillman moved to Washington, 
D. C., where he resided for one year, then returning to Orange City.  He 
died in 1883.    

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 285.