Stickel, Daniel (Stikel; Stickle)

Born: 1816-09-11 York County, Pennsylvania

Died: 1893-09-10 Monticello, Illinois

Flourished: 1841 to 1893 Piatt County, Illinois

Alternate name: Stikel;

Daniel Stickel, merchant and farmer, moved with his parents and siblings from his native Pennsylvania to Macon County, Illinois in 1837. He relocated from Decatur to Monticello in the spring of 1841 and opened the first general store in that town. Stickel continued to operate a store in various locations around the square in Monticello until 1854. Two years later he moved to a farm where he remained until 1865, when he moved back to Monticello permanently and resumed his mercantile career. In politics, Stickel was a Republican, and he served in the Illinois House of Representatives for a single term in 1859 and represented Piatt County at the 1860 Illinois Republican Convention. At the time of the 1860 census, he owned real estate valued at $27,000 and possessed $4,000 in personal property. Stickel married Annabella Piatt in 1842 and was survived by five children. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Emma C. Piatt, History of Piatt County (Chicago: Shepard and Johnston, [1883]), 321-22; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Piatt County, 31 May 1842, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Monticello, Piatt County, IL, 16; Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Piatt County, 229:104; 231:75, 76, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 3 November 1858, 2:2; John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac, 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 222; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Piatt County, IL, 114; Wayne C. Temple, “Delegates to the Illinois State Republican Nominating Convention in 1860,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 92 (Autumn 1999), 295; The Monticello Bulletin (IL), 16 September 1893, 1:3; Gravestone, Monticello Cemetery, Monticello, IL.