Joseph Stickney (1840–1903) was a wealthy coalbroker, hotelier, and socialite, mostly active in Pennsylvania. He was a native of Concord, New Hampshire, and made a fortune before the age of thirty by investing in the coal business.
Biographyedit
Stickney was born on May 31, 1840, in Concord, New Hampshire, to Joseph Pearson Stickney (1796–1877) and Lucretia Gibson Stickney (1809–1840). In 1881, Stickney and his partner, John N. Conyngham, purchased the large Mount Pleasant Hotel, in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire, from lumberman John T. G. Leavitt. It was later demolished.[1] In 1894, he married Carolyn S. Foster (1869–1936) of Waltham, Massachusetts. There were no children from the union.
Stickney died on December 21, 1903, in New York City.[2] In 1913, his widow Carolyn Foster Stickney[3] was remarried to Aymon de Faucigny-Lucinge (1862–1922), a French aristocrat.[4]
Stickney was the subject of a September 2019 episode of the podcast Lore.
Referencesedit
^Mt. Pleasant Hotel, 1875–1939, WhiteMountainHistory.org
^"Joseph Stickney" (PDF). The New York Times. New York City. 22 December 1903. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
^Amy Schellenbaum, "The Extraordinary History of 1902's Mount Washington Hotel ... and the 'Poor Fool' Who Built It", sur archive.curbed.com, March 26, 2014.
^"Carolyn Foster Stickney, Princess Aymon de Faucigny Lucinge. Country Girl Now a Princess; With $ 20,000,000 Was Lonely". El Paso Herald. 12 July 1913. p. 11. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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