Edwin Amos Stillman and Jennie Cochrane

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Husband Edwin Amos Stillman ¹

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           Born: 19 Jul 1813 - Middletown, Middlesex Co, CT 1
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           Died: 14 Jun 1892 - Canadice, Ontario Co, NY 2
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         Father: James Stillman (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Susan Trench (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 20 Dec 1842 2

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Wife Jennie Cochrane ²

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           Born:  - northern Ireland
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         Father: Rev. James Cochrane (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Jane Craig (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Ellicott R. Stillman ²

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2 M James Amos Stillman ³

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           Born: 14 Dec 1845 - Lima, Livingston Co, NY 2
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         Spouse: Maria North (1852-1872) 4
           Marr: 1869 4

         Spouse: Emma Commons (1856-1889) 4
           Marr: 15 May 1879 4

         Spouse: Amelia Catherine Turner (1852-      ) 5
           Marr: 9 Mar 1892 or 1902 5

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3 F Alice B. Stillman ²

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         Spouse: Charles N. Legg (      -      ) 2

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4 F Florence Stillman ²

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         Spouse: F. F. Betts (      -      ) 2

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5 F Jennie Stillman ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M John C. Stillman ²

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7 M Edwin S. Stillman ²

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8 F Mabel C. Stillman ²

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General Notes: Husband - Edwin Amos Stillman

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His father died when he was very young, and being the son of a widowed mother he began at an early date to support and educate himself, working on a farm before he was thirteen years of age, and taking a trip as cabin boy to Barbadoes and the West Indies. When thirteen years old he went to Meriden, Connecticut, as an apprentice in the Japanned ware business, remaining there for four years. During this time he joined the Baptist church, and distinguished himself as a religious speaker; he obtained a license to preach and was urged to study regularly for the ministry. He therefore spent a year at the Newton Theological Institute, and being then eighteen years of age decided to take a college course before completing his theological studies. Entering Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, he remained a year, teaching in a classical school in Providence while pursuing his own studies. During the summer of 1833 following, his attention was attracted to the slavery question by an article which appeared in an English magazine, and he became convinced that it was his duty to preach "the deliverance of the captive and the opening of the prison doors to those who were bound." He began writing articles on the subject of slavery; he made the acquaintance of J. G. Whittier, with whom he became associated as a fellow delegate to the general convention of Abolitionists which met at Philadelphia and formed the "American Anti-Slavery Society." He was at this time a resident of Middletown, Connecticut, where there were but three avowed Abolitionists, and he invited speakers from abroad whom he entertained, holding meetings in spite of the violence of the opposing mobs. All of this time he was still pursuing his theological studies, but finally he became discouraged by the indifferent attitude of the church toward the slavery question and abandoned his intention of a ministerial career. In the year 1835 he turned his attention to the study of civil engineering, and in the following year secured a position with the New York & Erie railroad. Soon afterward he became surveyor and assistant engineer on the Genesee Valley canal, being assigned charge of ten miles of the work from the tunnel below Portage to Hume, Allegany County, embracing some of the heaviest part of the work. Tunnels were a novelty in the country at that time, and his success in constructing this portion, as compared with similar works in Europe, was widely complimented. He was also instrumental in suppressing fraud and graft during the construction of the tunnel, and established a high reputation for personal integrity. In 1845 he removed to North Bloomfield, where he was engaged in locating a line of railroad from Canandaigua to Niagara Falls, and in 1854 he went to Springwater, where he began a career as lumberman, acquiring timber lands and erecting a lumber mill. He served in the engineering corps during the civil war and was engaged in the construction of Block House in Tennessee. He established a home in Canadice eventually, and lived here until his death, at the age of seventy-nine years.
During his residence at Canadice he took an active part in politics, being for many years identified with the Republican party. He was postmaster under President Lincoln, and held the office of justice of the peace, having read law and practiced in justice's court. He was the Republican candidate for member of the assembly in 1861, but was defeated; he was again candidate on the Greenback ticket for the same office, and for that of state engineer and surveyor. His last political affiliation was with the Prohibition party. He also continued to do some work at surveying while in Canadice, and was employed for several years by the Honeoye Millers' Association in their contest with the Rochester Water Works Company. He was a well-informed and public-spirited man generally, taking an active interest in all educational works and being an authority on many points in civic affairs. The lumber and cooperage business, which he established, was continued by his two sons, John C. and Edwin S. Stillman.

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General Notes: Wife - Jennie Cochrane

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She was born in the north of Ireland, coming to America with her parents; she died at the age of seventy-nine years, having survived her husband.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 387.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 388.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 388, 1000.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 389.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 389, 1000.