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Able Vermont Senator Porter H. Dale, long a quiet, potent Administration opponent, calmly derides Attorney General Sargent's rustic policies. Some months ago W. W. Stickney, onetime Governor of Vermont, announced his satiety with this situation, proposed in the fall to oust Senator Dale from his seat, proposed to fill the seat himself. Mr. Stickney is Mr. Sargent's law partner. Mr. Stickney is a cousin of President Coolidge. Mr. Stickney is the executor of the estate of President Coolidge's father, the late Colonel John Coolidge. In fact, John Coolidge received his title of "Colonel" from...
...Vermont, onetime (1900-02) Governor William Wallace Stickney announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Senator against Porter H. Dale, the incumbent. The interest in Stickney's candidacy rests on a number of facts: 1) Senator Dale has not been a very close supporter of the President. 2) Governor Stickney is a cousin of the President and was chosen by him to administer his father's estate. 3) Mr. Stickney is also a law partner of Attorney General Sargent...
...schools his son later attended. He began his career as a wheelwright, then he rented the general store. At 27 he was elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster for 49 years and deputy sheriff for a "very long time." He married twice and had one son and one daughter (who died young). He was an influential man in his community, a good citizen...
...Colonel John C. Coolidge, the President's father, was visited at Plymouth, Vt., by William Wallace Stickney, law partner of Attorney General Sargent and onetime Governor of that state (on whose staff the elder Coolidge held the title of Colonel). Mr. Stickney had to go twelve miles by snowmobile to reach the Coolidge farm, and even this machine had to be dug out of a drift near the Colonel's home...
...Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U. S., and Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies...