Edward H. H. Stackpole
His Death at McVeytown, Mifflin County, This Morning
Career and Public Service of Deceased

News was received in this city at noon today that Edward H. Stackpole, Esq., Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, who lived with his family at Third and Forster Streets, died at his former home in McVeytown, Mifflin County, at 11:35 o'clock this morning , now occupied by his sister, Mrs. E. Conrad.

Capt. Stackpole was born in McVeytown, August 11, 1836, and lived almost all of his life there. He was a blacksmith by trade and carried on the business when blacksmithing included the manufacture of wagons, sleighs and all kinds of vehicles.

Deceased was a prominent politician in Mifflin County before he took up his residence in this city, and was surrounded by warm friends in the numerous political contests in which he took part. He was elected to the Legislature from Mifflin district in 1876. In 1881, he was appointed to a position in the Treasury department by State Treasurer Butler, and in 1888 was chosen to the position of Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds which he held up to the time of his death.

He was surrounded by his family, except his son, Charles, who is in Tacoma, Washington. A widow and eleven children survive the deceased: Edward James of the Telegraph, Oscar Lincoln, Hannah Catherine, Ella Clark, Harry Clinton, Mark Holt, Donald Cameron, and May, of this city; Charles Bratton, of Tacoma; William Howard and Walker Woods, of Ridgeway, Elk County. Two sisters also survive him: Mrs. Lewis Rambler, of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. E. Conrad, of McVeytown, wife of the editor of the Journal.

Deceased was a prominent Mason, and the Masonic brethren will have charge of the funeral arrangements, the interment taking place in the family burial plot at McVeytown on Sunday, afternoon, at 2 o'clock.

Sources: Harrisburg Daily Independent and Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, PA, Friday, December 5, 1890, page 4 and page 1.