Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 225.

F. H. STICKLEY

     The career of F. H. Stickley has been characterized by great energy and
enterprise and the success which is now his has been gained through his
persistency along well-planned lines of action. His fine farm near Eugene is one
of the best stock ranches in this part of the valley and he has gained an
enviable reputation for me high quality of his stock. Born in Virginia in 1882,
Mr. Stickley is a son of W. S. and Mollie (Hamilton) Stickley, the former of
whom was a merchant, and both of whom now live in Tennessee.

     F. H. Stickley received his educational.training in the public and high
schools of his native state and in 1900, when eighteen years of age, went to
Montana, where he was employed in a store about seven years. He then returned
east and for two years was a traveling salesman out of Chicago, representing a
clothing firm and covering the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee. He then located in Portland, Oregon, where he was for a time with a
retail grocery firm, with which, he remained about a year, later becoming a
traveling salesman for the wholesale grocery firm of Lang & Company, of
Portland. A year later he went to work in the same capacity for Wadhams &
Company, of that city, covering the territory from Eugene to Canby, and was the
third traveling salesman in the valley to cover his route with an automobile. He
remained with that firm until 1917, when he resigned and went to Arlington, in
eastern Oregon, where he conducted a mercantile business about a year. While
with the Wadhams company, having his Saturdays to himself, he had engaged in the
buying and selling of cattle and sheep, and ran sheep on pasture which he
rented, specializing in raising lambs for market. When he sold his business in
Arlington, Mr. Stickley came to Lane county and rented land near Cloverdale and
Middledale, on which he engaged in the stock business for two years, at the end
of which time he bought his present farm, comprising one hundred and twenty-five
acres. Here he carries on dairying, milking from thirty to sixty cows, and also
engages in buying and selling cattle. He runs from fifty to sixty hogs and has
usually from eight hundred to a thousand ewes, which he keeps on rented land. In
1924 he shipped twenty-six double-deck cars of fancy lambs to the Portland
market. He has been more than ordinarily successful in his operations and stands
among the leading stock men of this locality.

     In 1902, in Montana, Mr. Stickley was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude
Chriss, who was born in Iowa, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Chriss, the
former a railroad engineer, and both of her parents are now deceased. To them
have been born two children, Maurice, who is assisting his father, and Mildred,
who is in the high school at Santa Clara. Mr. Stickley is president of the Lane
County Beef Cattle Association, which he helped to organize, and, fraternally,
is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Big Timber, Montana, and the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks at Albany, Oregon, as well as the United Commercial
Travelers. Cordial and friendly in manner, he enjoys a wide acquaintance
throughout the Willamette Valley and wherever known commands the esteem and good
will of his acquaintances.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2016 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.