WILLIAM STICKLES, farmer and carriage-maker, was born in Morris 
County,
N.J., March 2, 1849, being the fourth of nine children born to John E. and
Louisa (Kimble) Stickles, both natives of New Jersey.  He received his early
education in the common schools in his native State, and at the age of
eighteen went into the shop of Oscar Brunson, in Drakestown, remaining 
with
him three years.  He then came West, traveling for two years in Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, then coming to Indiana in the spring of 
1872,
and locating in Leesville.  He was then engaged in the carriage and
wagon-making trades until the fall of 1879, when he moved on to his farm of
sixty-three acres, which he had purchased a year previously.  In 1876 he
purchase a farm in Jackson County, Ind., consisting of eighty acres of good
land.  He was married January 12, 1873, to Miss Olie J. Wilson, daughter of
John and Ann Wilson, of Leesville, Ind., and one child has been born to
them--Dora E., born March 27, 1874.  Mr. Stickles was elected County
Commissioner in 1880, and re-elected in 1882.  He is an A. F. & A. M., and 
a
Republican.


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