Stickney, Warren B.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 23, credited to Brookline, VT Unit(s): 8th VT INF, 99th USCI Service: enl 11/19/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. H, 8th VT INF, m/o 9/13/63 (15th Corps d'Afrique, 99th USCT) See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: abt 1838, Brookline, VT Death: 09/16/1898 Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, MI Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 30544276 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 8/3/897, MI; widow Olive B., 12/30/1898, MA Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Warren Stickney
WARREN STICKNEY was born on Brookline, Dec. 3, 1837, fitted for college at Powers Institution, Bernardston, Mass; entered Amherst College, 1859; enlisted in 8th Reg., Vt. Vols, Npv. 19, 1861;; promoted to a lieutenancy in 99th Reg. U.S.C.I.; organized and was superintendent of first public colored schools in New Orleans, 1863, '64, and of Freedmans Bureau in north western Louisiana, in 1865; principal of Greenfield and Chicopee, Mass., High schools in 1867, '68 and '69; received the degree of A.M. from Amherst College in 1868, elected superintendent of City schools and mamber tof State Board of Education, New Orleans, La., 1869; was over four years in the Army, participating in the sieges of Port Hudson and Mobie; while organizing and superintending the colored schools in New Orleans, matured a plan which resulted in giving the Freedmen of Louisiana the best system of public chools organized for them in any State, and in 60 days after, appointed as superintendent of Freedman's Bureau of N.W. Louisiana; he put 32, 000 colored laborers under contract, receiving for everyone of the recently emancipated slaves some compensation for his or her labors' He married Sept. 28, 1865, Olive B, daughter of U.S. Darling of Lyeden, Mass., who graduated under Hiram Orcutt, A.M., at Glenwood Ladies Seminary, at West Brattleboro, class of 1864, yo whom one son, Clement R. Stickney was born Oct. 14, 1866.
At present (1881), Mr. Stickeny is publisher of Johnson's Natural History, in two large royal octavo volumes, of over 1500 pages, and 1500 engravings; with redidence at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Hemenway's Historical Gazetter, 1891, v:401-402
Submitted By: Deanna French.
BIOGRAPHY
Wm. B. Stickney is well known in educational circles, and served as superintendent of colored schools in the city of New Orleans.
Source: 8th Vermont Infantry Regimental History off-site page 262