Source: North Manchester
Journal, July 26, 1911
FORMER FACTORY MAN DIES
James Stiggleman, Once of Peabody Factory, Passes
Away
Early Friday morning at his home in Wabash, James
Stiggleman died from the results of heart trouble from which he had been
suffering for some time. He had been in charge of the exhibit of the Cardinal
Cabinet company of Wabash in Chicago for a short time, but was compelled to
return home a little more than a week ago on account of his health. For several
days he was feeling badly, but was not thought that his condition was serious,
even when he went to sleep the night before his death. About midnight he awoke
with a severe pain in his arm, which gradually passed away, and as it did so he
went into the sleep from which he never awakened. He was born in Richmond, April
15, 1858 and came to Wabash county when only a boy. He married Elsie White April
14, 1885, and she with four children survive. The funeral services were held in
Wabash Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Stiggleman was well known in this city, having at first
been associated with James B. and Thomas A. Peabody in establishing the Peabody
factory here.