S. M. Stickley
S. M. Stickley, grocer, Jefferson, is a son of Isaac Stickley, who was born in Virginia, where he married Henrietta Beals. In 1849, they, with a family of three children, came to Ohio, and, in 1851, settled in Jefferson Township, Madison County, where Isaac buried his wife in 1864, having had by her eight children. He married for his second wife Mary Stutson, and, in the summer of 1882, they moved to the village of Jefferson. To the last union one child is given. Our subject, his father's eldest child, was born on the South Branch of the Ptomac River, in Maryland, in the year 1843, but, since eight years of age, has been a resident of Madison County, where his summers were devoted to farming, and his winters to the district schools. He enlisted, August 7, 1862, in Company K, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in the battle of Richmond, Ky., but was discharged in the spring of 1863, and, in 1864, re-enlisted in Company C., One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but, after passing through one battle, he returned home, in the fall of the same year. He devoted some time to clerking inJefferson, and in 1871 he began on his own accounty, by opening out his present business stand. He has been identified with the interests of this town, and served as its Treasurer five years. He was married, in 1867, to Eliza Garrabrant.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]