Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM M. STILLMAN
W. M. STILLMAN.—An
executive of exceptional natural ability and wide, valuable experience is W. M.
Stillman, the popular assistant superintendent of the
Southern Pacific at Sacramento. He
was born in New York City on February 5, 1878, the son of
Alfred and Anna (Hewitt) Stillman, worthy citizens
representing one of the oldest and most honored families in America. Mrs.
Stillman has passed away, beloved by all who knew
her; but our subject’s father is still living in New York
City.
Coming
out to the Pacific Coast
when very young, the lad attended school in San Francisco,
commencing in 1884; and when old enough to do so, he took the engineering
course of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and was graduated
with the degree of Ph. B. in 1902. Then he returned West
and entered the engineer department of the Southern Pacific Railroad; but on
the breaking out of the war between Germany
and the United States, he joined the
American army, and served for fourteen months, joining the transportation corps
in France,
where he spent a year. Returning to America,
he took up again the duties of his former position of
assistant superintendent at Stockton; and in October,
1921, he was promoted to the still more responsible position of assistant
superintendent of the railway at Sacramento. This
responsibility Mr.Stillman has since discharged with
increasing favor in the estimation of all with whom he has to deal, and Sacramento
County, as well as the Southern
Pacific Railroad, to which Mr. Stillman is devotedly
attached, may be congratulated on having encouraged this gentleman to cast his
lines in such pleasant waters.
At
Stockton, Mr. Stillman was
married to Miss Marie Cabney, of Stockton,
Cal., a lady of talent and grace; and their
fortunate union has been blessed in the birth of three children: Alfred, Dixwell and Patricia. In fraternal affairs, Mr. Stillman is a Mason.
Transcribed 5-21-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County, California
With Biographical Sketches, Page 813-814. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.