Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-17
REV. DANIEL sTIckNEY DEAD.
Native 81 HaIlowell-vsieran Clergyman and
IournaIis!-Died al Auburn.

Daniel Stickney, the veteran Journalist
of Aroostook county, Me, died on High
land avenue, in Auburn, Thursday fore
noon, aged 80 years. after a lingering i'll
ness.
He was one of the old type of newspaper
editors of Maine, but few of whom are
left. Personally, he was pleasant, talka-
tive, and carried certain dignity about
him at once attracting and pleasing.
Daniel Stickney was born at Hall0well,
Me-, Nov. %, 1901. His parents were
Massachusetts people, born before the Rev.
olution, his father in Bradford, row Grove
land, who was descendant of the sixth
generation from William Stickney, who
emigrated from England and settled in
Rowley, Mass, in 1893. His mother was
of the numerous Smith family, SO well
known over New England, whose father
was in the employ of merchants of, and
sailing from New York, but emigrated to
the Ksnnebec and settled in the wilderness
Of what Is now Clinton, before the Revolu-
ton, where his mother was born. On the
breaking out of the war the Smith family
returned to Nantucket and again came back
to Hallowell with the close of hostilities.
Daniel was the Oldest of the Stickney
family of seven children, and in common
with them was schooled in all the lines of
industry considered worthy of being
taught to little ones in these days. Hi,
parents were poor in this worlds riches,
but were quiet, religious people-the kind
that make such excellent parents. When
he was two years old, the family removed
TO Chesterville then the Chester planta-
ton with q population of 10 families.
When 10 years oil he was bound out to
neighboring family and there received the
first knowledge of actual life in the world.
At the end of five years he earned 50
month beside his board, and was considered
very smart boy for bis age. The common
district school OF 70 years ago was his only
opportunity for learning and he seems to
have made the best of it. He frequently
used to refer to his school days at the plan
tation schoolhouse, which, unlike. the pro-
verbal institution, was white instead of
red. hriv tnaF4f [
At the age Of IS he taught school in the
old town of Wilton for eight weeks for
which he received SIG, that being the lar
gest amount of money he had ever owned
at one time, and no doubt it looked very
large. Nevertheless, part of this money
was turned over to his father in flial duty,
and more Of it bought books for study at
the old Pennington academy. That was
last schooling he received and from that in
stituie he entered the school of life. The
only newspaper he had ever read up to his
fifteenth year was the Herald
of Liberty published by Peter Edes
of Augusta. He developed a hunger for
reading everything he could get hold Of
principally religious books like Watts
Psalms and geographical works. Between
1924 and lS4S he taught school in Wilton,
Carthage, Fayete, Sidney, Westport and
Lee. In 1921 he made sea voyage to the
West Indies, then TO the bay of Honduras
and home to Portland. In these voyages
he kept his eyes open and learned many
things which cropped out in bis writings at
a later period of life. For while he was
carpenter. Then he became correspon-
dent and agent of newspapers and Travelled
all over Maine in the interests of the Lewis
ton Journal, the Gospel Banner, the Far
mer, the Age, the KENNEgEc Journal, the
Maine Evangelist and many other papers
In 1913 he became a preacher of Universal
ism.
Writing of this period of bis life in an
photographed sketch in the Journal of
Sept. 81. 1898, he wrote:
I'm 1913 Ibecome a lay preacher, licensed
to preach, however, by the Universalist
State Convention of Maine, and preached
Universalism as understand 1t from the
xiii Psalm, in Christ's sermon on the
Mount, by st. Paul in his sermon to the
Athenians at the Areopagus upon Mars Hill,
and in the xii chapter of Romans. The
forms, ceremonies and Creeds of all the
sects regard as of no importance what
ever.
Having preached the best l know how
for about % years, whenever and wherever
had congregation to hear me, and be-
coming entirely dissatisfied with the
practice which the world has fallen into
of paying $40 TO lawyer for managing
petty case in a justice court, which
takes but two hours of his time, while the
preacher is requested to spend the same
amount of time to attend Il funeral, gener-
ally for nothing, and never for over S.,
decided to preach no more and abandoned
the business altogether"
In 1861 he became ain editorial worker
on the Aroostook Pioneer, published by
Mr.. VIM. s, Gilman. In 1868 he became
the publisher Of the Sunrise, which he sold
out. II years later, at the age of 70 years.
During this time, as editor of the Sunrise,
he was twice member of the Legislature
and from October 1867, to 1874, was post
master at Presque lsle.-Lewiston Journal.