Jacob V. Stimson

Jacob Vansickle Stimson BIRTH 28 Apr 1861 Mahalasville, Morgan County, Indiana DEATH 3 Nov 1925 Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana son of Erasmus Francis Stimson Mercy Ann VanSickel Stimso

Jacob V Stimson of Huntingburg solely by his own merits and ability and without assistance save that which he owes to an uncle who gave him the advantage of a good example and a solid business training and sympathy he has come to be widely known in the fraternity not only of the State but of the country and achieving only moderate wealth as riches go in these days seems to have established himself on a solid foundation character and methods

Jacob VanSickle Stimson was born on a farm near Martinsville Indiana April 28 1861 His father Erastus F Stimson belonged to an old North Carolina family removing from that State to Indiana about 1852 and his mother was Mercy A VanSickle Stimson who was born on the border line between New York and New Jersey and came of an old Knickerbocker family Jacob V was the oldest of four sons

When sixteen years old he left the farm to start out in the world for himself He engaged in farm work during that summer and in the fall secured a position in Martinsville as a stave bucker with McGregor & VanSickle Andrew R VanSickle of the firm being his uncle The firm was a stave and cooperage supply house having heavy contracts with the Standard Oil Company and other institutions Young Stimson remained with this firm about seven years until its dissolution running a machine and later becoming an inspector and buyer Each winter for several years he attended school and also taught two or three terms

When the partnership was dissolved Mr Stimson continued with his uncle as superintendent of his factory this uncle he owes a greater debt of gratitude than to any other man in the world for he was a man of the highest honor from whom a young man of sensibility was bound to absorb something of his character He was also a man of warm sympathies and to young Stimson he extended what opportunities he could In 1890 he took him into partnership in a small sawmill at Heltonville Lawrence County on what is now the Southern Indiana Railroad That section of country was once noted for the quantity and quality of its hardwood lumber and this first venture of Mr Stimson's was profitable from a modest standpoint but was overtaken by misfortune in the shape of a bank failure in 1893 and in the following year by a fire which destroyed the entire plant on which there was no insurance

Mr Stimson then sold his interest to Mr VanSickle and with less than $5,000 began business on his own account in 1895 at Huntingburg where he has since made his and also his home He leased a site for his sawmill bought second hand band mill and when his plant was ready to his capital was exhausted and the mill was not entirely paid for But he borrowed money with which to buy timber and operate and by the hardest kind of both mental and physical labor struggled toward success Oftentimes he would fall from sheer exhaustion at his desk at night So necessary it to turn over his product rapidly that for three years he it green from the saw to dealers who would make advances but at the end of that time he had enough capital ahead to and handle his own lumber

Two years of prosperous business though still not on a large scale brought him to the year 1900 when he felt at liberty to expand his operations He bought a circular mill in Owensboro Kentucky built by Nathan Thayer and operated it for two years when it was burned Mr Stimson replaced it with a modern band mill which is operated under the name of J V Stimson & Co Mr Stimson's partner being his brother Dayton C Stimson who has a third interest in the business In 1903 Mr Stimson bought a tract of timber at Earl Arkansas on which he put two portable circular mills Later he bought timber in Mississippi and in the winter of 1905 6 sold one of the Arkansas portables and moved the other to Mississippi enlarging it and operating it as the JV Stimson Lumber Company Mr Stimson's brother Harry is the partner in this firm having a third interest Mr Stimson still takes the product of the mill in Arkansas and has purchased about 5,000 acres of fine hardwood timber near Bearden in the same State In addition he is connected with his younger brother Anson R Stimson in the Stimson Lumber Company at Penrose North Carolina

The daily output of hardwood of Mr Stimson's is nearly 100,000 feet while in addition more or less lumber is bought chiefly from parties who sell to him good logs for manufacture at his band mills but who themselves cut their coarser logs In 1905 Mr Stimson another band mill in Owensboro making three band owned and operated by the Stimson interests

Mr Stimson's specialty is high grade quartered oak for furniture and interior finish trade but this is accompanied an output of all varieties of commercial hardwoods to be upon the lands he occupies the coarse oak logs being cut into car and structural timbers switch ties fence piling etc while considerable quantities of other are manufactured Mr Stimson's policy has been to stumpage rather than land although in some cases the has been necessary He believes in the value of lumber and carries always from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 feet sticks and has the reputation of being an excellent judge values and of the future trend of the market

He has confined himself strictly to the hardwood lumber business his only other outside interest being a 250 acre farm near Huntingburg the management of which gives relaxation from the steady grind of business In 1902 he helped organize the Huntingburg Wagon Works but sold his interest in 1904

Mr Stimson is unusually clean cut and independent in business methods He has always avoided hampering indebtedness It was necessary at the beginning to borrow money but he did so on his own name and credit and he has given a mortgage or asked any one to indorse his paper ascribes what business success he has achieved to the fact that from the beginning he deliberately sought to earn more he received to make his employer's interests his own and spare nothing of labor or mental effort Thus making for his employers he learned to make it for himself and acquired the habit of profitable employment

Being a believer in cooperation at the first Stimson associated himself with other manufacturers organizations He attended the meeting in St 1897 when the Mississippi Valley Hardwood Lumber was formed with the late CA Ward of Chicago Later he helped organize the Indiana Association of which he was the second is a member of the National Hardwood Lumber and of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers in both of which he has done much effective work recognized as one of the clearest thinkers and best the National Hardwood Lumber Association and he represents the manufacturing rather than the lumber element in that body his influence is strong Mr Stimson married in 1882 Miss Eva Davis of Columbus Indiana They have three children Robert nineteen years of age a junior in the Indiana State University at Bloomington Fred fifteen years old attending the Hunting burg high school and Helen eleven years old

Mr Stimson is a member of the Methodist Church In national politics he is a Republican He is a thirty second degree Mason a member of Lavelette Commandery of Evansville Indiana Knights Templar and of Murat Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Indianapolis Indiana - American lumbermen : the personal history and public and bus, Volume 3 1906

married on Apr 1883 Mahalasville, Morgan, Indiana Eva Ellis "Birdie" Davis Birth: March 31, 1864 Brown, IN Death: April 15, 1952 Huntingburg, Dubois, Indiana daughter of Robert C Davis and Louisa H Richey. Children of Jacob Vansickle Stimson and Eva Ellis "Birdie" Davis are:

Mable Stimson, b. 1884, Mahalasville, Morgan, Indiana d. 1889, Mahalasville, Morgan, IN, BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana

Robert Cunningham Stimson, b. 12 Apr 1886, Mahalasville, Morgan, Indiana d. 10 Oct 1944, Dumas, AR BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana married 03 Apr 1909 in Monroe, IN Gail Quincy Blankenship Birth: February 10, 1885 Paragon, Morgan county Indiana Death: November 18, 1975 Martinsville,morgan county Indiana BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana Daughter of Quncy A Blankenship and Francine Mille

Fred A Stimson, b. 27 Jun 1891, Heltonville, Lawrence Indiana d. 26 Dec 1976,Hartford City, Blackford County, Indiana, BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana married Alma Katherine Möckhaus Birth: August 09, 1889 Huntingburg, Dubois, Indiana, Huntingburg, Dubois, Indiana Death: January 01, 1984 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana Daughter of Charles Henry Möckhaus and Louisa Bretz

Helen Vansickle Stimson, b. 18 Nov 1895, Heltonville, lawrence county Indiana d. 25 Jun 1936, Huntingburg, Dubois, Indiana BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana married 16 Feb 1920 in Huntingburg, IN, Walter Hirzel Seeburger Birth: November 12, 1893 Terre Haute, Vigo county Indiana Death: December 23, 1959 Burial: Marion, Grant, Indiana, son of Frederick August Seeburger Caroline Hirzel

Year: 1880; Census Place: Washington, Morgan, Indiana; 
Roll: 301; Page: 170D; Enumeration District: 271
Name:	Jacob V. Stimson
Age:	20
Birth Date:	Abt 1860
Birthplace:	Indiana
Home in 1880:	Washington, Morgan, Indiana, USA
Street:	78
House Number:	79
Dwelling Number:	212
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Son
Marital status:	Single
Father's name:	E. F. Stimson
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's name:	Mercy Stimson
Mother's Birthplace:	New Jersey
Occupation:	Works On Farm
Attended School:	Yes
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	
Name	Age
E. F. Stimson	50
Mercy Stimson	45
Jacob V. Stimson	20
Harry Stimson	16
Dayton C. Stimson	13
Anson R. Stimson	10
Mahala Stimson	8
Mary Stimson	6
Evva Stimson	9/12


Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941
Name:	Birdie E Davis
Spouse Name:	Jacob V Stimpson
Marriage Date:	29 Mar 1883
Marriage County:	Morgan

Year: 1900; Census Place: Patoka, Dubois, Indiana; Page: 5; 
Enumeration District: 0050; FHL microfilm: 1240368
Name:	Jacob V Stimson
Age:	39
Birth Date:	Apr 1861
Birthplace:	Indiana
Home in 1900:	Patoka, Dubois, Indiana
Ward of City:	First
Street:	Van Buren Street
Sheet Number:	5
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	106
Family Number:	112
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	Eva D Stimson
Marriage Year:	1883
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	New Jersey
Occupation:	Lumberman
Months Not Employed:	0
Can Read:	Yes
Can Write:	Yes
Can Speak English:	Yes
House Owned or Rented:	R
Farm or House:	H
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	
Name	Age
Jacob V Stimson	39
Eva D Stimson	36
Robert Stimson	14
Fred Stimson	8
Helen Stimson	5
Pearl R Hayes	15

Year: 1910; Census Place: Huntingburg Ward 3, Dubois, Indiana; Roll: T624_347; Page: 2A; 
Enumeration District: 0059; FHL microfilm: 1374360
Name:	Jacob V Sternson [Jacob V Stunson]  [Jacob V Stemson] 
Age in 1910:	49
Birth Year:	abt 1861
Birthplace:	Indiana
Home in 1910:	Huntingburg Ward 3, Dubois, Indiana
Street:	Fourth Street
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	Eva Sternson
Father's Birthplace:	Maryland
Mother's Birthplace:	Virginia
Native Tongue:	English
Occupation:	Proprietor
Industry:	Saw Mill
Employer, Employee or Other:	Employer
Home Owned or Rented:	Own
Home Free or Mortgaged:	Free
Farm or House:	House
Able to Read:	Yes
Able to Write:	Yes
Years Married:	28
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	
Name	Age
Jacob V Sternson	49
Eva Sternson	47
Fred Sternson	19
Helen Sternson	15
Robert Sternson	24
Gales Sternson	24
Anna Weisman	36
Clara Thormohlen	20


Year: 1920; Census Place: Patoka, Dubois, Indiana; 
Roll: T625_431; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 56
Name:	Jacob V Stimson
Age:	57
Birth Year:	abt 1863
Birthplace:	Indiana
Home in 1920:	Patoka, Dubois, Indiana
Street:	Main St
House Number:	510
Residence Date:	1920
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	Eva D Stimson
Father's Birthplace:	West Virginia
Mother's Birthplace:	New Jersey
Able to Speak English:	Yes
Occupation:	Mill Operator
Industry:	Lumber Mill
Employment Field:	Own Account
Home Owned or Rented:	Own
Home Free or Mortgaged:	Free
Able to Read:	Yes
Able to Write:	Yes
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	
Name	Age
Jacob V Stimson	57
Eva D Stimson	55
Helen V Stimson	24

Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011
Name:	Jacob Vansickle Steinson
Gender:	Male
Race:	White
Age:	64
Marital status:	Married
Birth Date:	28 Apr 1861
Birth Place:	Mahalaville, Ind.
Death Date:	3 Nov 1925
Death Place:	Huntingburg, Dubois, Indiana, USA
Father:	Erasmus Steinson
Mother:	Mercy Steinson
Spouse:	Eva S Steinson