Laramie County WY Archives Biographies.....Stitzer, Frank A. 1840 - 
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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

GEN. FRANK A. STITZER.

   Distinguished as a soldier in one of the greatest struggles in the annals of
warfare, equally prominent as a civilian and as an official, filling worthily
positions of honor and trust, Adjutant-General Stitzer has won a prominent place
among the public men of Wyoming. He was the tenth in a family of thirteen
children born to John and Sarah (Sticknor) Stitzer, natives of Pennsylvania, and
dates his life from August 28, 1840. He first saw the light of day in Berks
county, Pa., and for a very limited period only attended such schools as his
neighborhood afforded, being thrown upon his own resources at a very early age.
He earned his first money by driving a team on a canal, and after following this
means of livelihood for several years, he engaged with a party to learn
paperhanging, in which he soon became an efficient workman. He was thus employed
when the ominous clouds of impending Civil War darkened the national horizon and
threatened the destruction of the Union. When the conflict broke out and the
President appealed to the loyal sons of the North for volunteers, he was one of
the first in his part of the country to respond, enlisting early in 1861.
Entering the service as a private he was soon made first sergeant of his company
and by successive promotions rapidly rose to the ranks of first and second
lieutenant and captain, while later in the same year he was commissioned major
of a Pennsylvania regiment and with this rank he participated in several noted
campaigns, distinguishing himself in a number of bloody battles, among which
were South Mountain, Bull Run and Antietam. He served four years and four months
without receiving an injury and retired from the army with a record for bravery
and gallantry of which any soldier might well feel proud. At the close of the
war Captain Stitzer resumed paperhanging and decorating, continuing in that line
of work until 1869, when he accepted a clerical position with the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. After filling that place for some time he resigned and for sixteen
years thereafter, he served as U. S. deputy revenue collector with headquarters
at Easton, Pa. At the expiration of that period he came to Wyoming in the same
capacity, having received the appointment in this state through the
instrumentality of the collector for Colorado, and continued to discharge the
duties of the position during the ensuing seven years. In 1890 he was appointed
adjutant-general of Wyoming, which office he has since held with credit to
himself and to the entire satisfaction of the people of the state. In connection
with his duties as adjutant-general he holds the important position of
superintendent of the State Soldiers' Home at Cheyenne, Wyo., to which he was
appointed on August 9, 1895. In this, as in other official relations, he has
demonstrated a wise judgment and a far-reaching sagacity of a high order and
acquired a reputation second to that of none other of the state's public men.
Since he was old enough to wield the elective franchise he has been an ardent
supporter of the Republican party, earnest in the defense of his convictions and
active in promoting the interests of the cause in local, state and national
campaigns. He has proven himself an able and an efficient organizer and an
untiring worker, and while contributing to his party's success in not a few
campaigns, his course as a politician has always been honorable and free from
the methods to which so many professional partisans resort. He is identified
with several fraternal organizations, notably the Masonic and Pythian orders,
belonging to the Uniform Rank in the latter, the Grand Army of the Republic and
Loyal Legion of the United States. As a gallant and intrepid officer on some of
the bloodiest battlefields of the Southland he proved his loyalty to the
government, in public and private life he commands unusual respect and esteem,
while as a neighbor and a citizen his name has long been synonymous with
integrity and honorable conduct. General Stitzer is a self-made man, and as such
easily ranks with the most enterprising and public spirited of his compeers. It
is not too much to say for him that no man in the city of his residence enjoys a
greater degree of popularity and. as he is still in the prime of life, his
friends look for him to receive still further honors, although he can well
afford to rest on the laurels already earned. On January 1, 1866, at Cressona,
Pa., Captain Stitzer and Miss Josephine Hause, a daughter of Peter H. and Hannah
Hause of that state were united in the bonds of wedlock, the union resulting in
three children, Edgar P., who holds a position in the U. S. custom-house at New
York City: Frank P., engaged in the insurance business at Cheyenne; Emily D., a
professional stenographer of Cheyenne.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN &CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903

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