Name Amos B. Stillman
Event Type Death
Event Date 09 Jul 1921
Event Place Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
Residence Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Gender Male
Age 87
Marital Status Married
Race White
Occupation Newspaper Editor
Birth Date Mar 1844
Birthplace CT
Burial Date 12 Jul 1921
Burial Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Cemetery Evergreen
Father's Name Horace Stillman
Father's Birthplace CT
Mother's Name Ellen Bailey
Mother's Birthplace CT
"DEACON" STILLMAN'S PASSING. Dead at his home on upper Fulton street is Amos B. Stillman, "Deacon" Stillman of Park Row, forty-three years in the service of the New York Sun under Dana and Dana's successors. He lived to be 87. He belonged to the period of hand typesetting. After the Civil War, for which he had enlisted at the age of 16, he became a compositor on the New York Times, and even then lived in Brooklyn. It was a pet bit. of persiflag of the printers to say that since most of them lived in Brooklyn they found the ferries mighty convenient. When a galley of type was "pied," employers who owned the type wanted it distrilmied, of course ; hut a good fat pocketful of it was very likely to be dropped in the East River. It was declared that there was type enough under water to set all the newspapers of the city. Stillnian dropped the stick to work for t lie Hartford CouraJit as a re porter, then as news editor. He went to the Sun in 1870. Charles A. Dana was fond of him. Chester S. Lord liked him. He was especially chummy with that other Amos. Amos Cummings, managing editor, and later Representative in Congress. He knew the famous Hudnut gathering place in the old Herald Building, and John Reid of the Times, and W. J. K. Kenny, and J. T. C. Clarke, and Ed Mott. Later he took tn Perry's place in the World Building, as did many of the old timers. "Deacon" Stillman was a good fellow to the last, and a fine story teller. His knowledge of the politics of the city. State and Nation was exhaustive. We suppose Amos B. Stillman envied no man on earth save Dr. Wood, who had the title of the "Sun's Great Condenser." As himself a prize copy-reader and headline writer this appealed to him ; but Wood's title could never lie usurped. Mr. Stillman was a patriot, a humorist, and a newspaper man not a journalist. His name has a permanent place in the annals of the profession.
July 11, 1921
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Page 6
Event Type Death
Event Date 09 Jul 1921
Event Place Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
Residence Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Gender Male
Age 87
Marital Status Married
Race White
Occupation Newspaper Editor
Birth Date Mar 1844
Birthplace CT
Burial Date 12 Jul 1921
Burial Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Cemetery Evergreen
Father's Name Horace Stillman
Father's Birthplace CT
Mother's Name Ellen Bailey
Mother's Birthplace CT
"DEACON" STILLMAN'S PASSING. Dead at his home on upper Fulton street is Amos B. Stillman, "Deacon" Stillman of Park Row, forty-three years in the service of the New York Sun under Dana and Dana's successors. He lived to be 87. He belonged to the period of hand typesetting. After the Civil War, for which he had enlisted at the age of 16, he became a compositor on the New York Times, and even then lived in Brooklyn. It was a pet bit. of persiflag of the printers to say that since most of them lived in Brooklyn they found the ferries mighty convenient. When a galley of type was "pied," employers who owned the type wanted it distrilmied, of course ; hut a good fat pocketful of it was very likely to be dropped in the East River. It was declared that there was type enough under water to set all the newspapers of the city. Stillnian dropped the stick to work for t lie Hartford CouraJit as a re porter, then as news editor. He went to the Sun in 1870. Charles A. Dana was fond of him. Chester S. Lord liked him. He was especially chummy with that other Amos. Amos Cummings, managing editor, and later Representative in Congress. He knew the famous Hudnut gathering place in the old Herald Building, and John Reid of the Times, and W. J. K. Kenny, and J. T. C. Clarke, and Ed Mott. Later he took tn Perry's place in the World Building, as did many of the old timers. "Deacon" Stillman was a good fellow to the last, and a fine story teller. His knowledge of the politics of the city. State and Nation was exhaustive. We suppose Amos B. Stillman envied no man on earth save Dr. Wood, who had the title of the "Sun's Great Condenser." As himself a prize copy-reader and headline writer this appealed to him ; but Wood's title could never lie usurped. Mr. Stillman was a patriot, a humorist, and a newspaper man not a journalist. His name has a permanent place in the annals of the profession.
July 11, 1921
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Page 6
Name Amos B. Stillman
Event Type Death
Event Date 09 Jul 1921
Event Place Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
Residence Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Gender Male
Age 87
Marital Status Married
Race White
Occupation Newspaper Editor
Birth Date Mar 1844
Birthplace CT
Burial Date 12 Jul 1921
Burial Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Cemetery Evergreen
Father's Name Horace Stillman
Father's Birthplace CT
Mother's Name Ellen Bailey
Mother's Birthplace CT
"DEACON" STILLMAN'S PASSING. Dead at his home on upper Fulton street is Amos B. Stillman, "Deacon" Stillman of Park Row, forty-three years in the service of the New York Sun under Dana and Dana's successors. He lived to be 87. He belonged to the period of hand typesetting. After the Civil War, for which he had enlisted at the age of 16, he became a compositor on the New York Times, and even then lived in Brooklyn. It was a pet bit. of persiflag of the printers to say that since most of them lived in Brooklyn they found the ferries mighty convenient. When a galley of type was "pied," employers who owned the type wanted it distrilmied, of course ; hut a good fat pocketful of it was very likely to be dropped in the East River. It was declared that there was type enough under water to set all the newspapers of the city. Stillnian dropped the stick to work for t lie Hartford CouraJit as a re porter, then as news editor. He went to the Sun in 1870. Charles A. Dana was fond of him. Chester S. Lord liked him. He was especially chummy with that other Amos. Amos Cummings, managing editor, and later Representative in Congress. He knew the famous Hudnut gathering place in the old Herald Building, and John Reid of the Times, and W. J. K. Kenny, and J. T. C. Clarke, and Ed Mott. Later he took tn Perry's place in the World Building, as did many of the old timers. "Deacon" Stillman was a good fellow to the last, and a fine story teller. His knowledge of the politics of the city. State and Nation was exhaustive. We suppose Amos B. Stillman envied no man on earth save Dr. Wood, who had the title of the "Sun's Great Condenser." As himself a prize copy-reader and headline writer this appealed to him ; but Wood's title could never lie usurped. Mr. Stillman was a patriot, a humorist, and a newspaper man not a journalist. His name has a permanent place in the annals of the profession.
July 11, 1921
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Page 6
Event Type Death
Event Date 09 Jul 1921
Event Place Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
Residence Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Gender Male
Age 87
Marital Status Married
Race White
Occupation Newspaper Editor
Birth Date Mar 1844
Birthplace CT
Burial Date 12 Jul 1921
Burial Place Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Cemetery Evergreen
Father's Name Horace Stillman
Father's Birthplace CT
Mother's Name Ellen Bailey
Mother's Birthplace CT
"DEACON" STILLMAN'S PASSING. Dead at his home on upper Fulton street is Amos B. Stillman, "Deacon" Stillman of Park Row, forty-three years in the service of the New York Sun under Dana and Dana's successors. He lived to be 87. He belonged to the period of hand typesetting. After the Civil War, for which he had enlisted at the age of 16, he became a compositor on the New York Times, and even then lived in Brooklyn. It was a pet bit. of persiflag of the printers to say that since most of them lived in Brooklyn they found the ferries mighty convenient. When a galley of type was "pied," employers who owned the type wanted it distrilmied, of course ; hut a good fat pocketful of it was very likely to be dropped in the East River. It was declared that there was type enough under water to set all the newspapers of the city. Stillnian dropped the stick to work for t lie Hartford CouraJit as a re porter, then as news editor. He went to the Sun in 1870. Charles A. Dana was fond of him. Chester S. Lord liked him. He was especially chummy with that other Amos. Amos Cummings, managing editor, and later Representative in Congress. He knew the famous Hudnut gathering place in the old Herald Building, and John Reid of the Times, and W. J. K. Kenny, and J. T. C. Clarke, and Ed Mott. Later he took tn Perry's place in the World Building, as did many of the old timers. "Deacon" Stillman was a good fellow to the last, and a fine story teller. His knowledge of the politics of the city. State and Nation was exhaustive. We suppose Amos B. Stillman envied no man on earth save Dr. Wood, who had the title of the "Sun's Great Condenser." As himself a prize copy-reader and headline writer this appealed to him ; but Wood's title could never lie usurped. Mr. Stillman was a patriot, a humorist, and a newspaper man not a journalist. His name has a permanent place in the annals of the profession.
July 11, 1921
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Page 6
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