John Maxson Stillman PhD was listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and was Head of the Chemistry Department of Stanford University

From The Stanford Gang
The Stillman Dynasty
John Maxson Stillman

"The first person to occupy a post in the Chemistry Department was John Maxson Stillman, appointed professor in 1891. Stillman was born in New York City on April 14, 1852, but spent most of his early years in Sacramento and San Francisco. He graduated from the University of California in 1874. After two years of further study at the Universities of Strassburg and Wiirzburg, he returned to the University of California as an instructor in organic chemistry and general chemistry. In 1882, seeking better prospects than were presented to him at Berkeley, he accepted the position of chemist with the Boston and American Sugar Refining Companies in the city of Boston. The account of Stillman's appointment to Stanford is best told by one of his closest friends: 'When Stanford University was proposed by Senator and Mrs. Stanford and Doctor Jordan had been selected by them to put the institution into operation, Senator Stanford asked Doctor Jordan to look into the qualifications of one man and only one, for a position on the faculty of the university that was to be. That man was John M. Stillman, the son of his old-time friend, associated and family physician in Sacramento, Dr. J.D.B. Stillman.' Needless to say, following such a request from the founder, Jordan appointed Stillman, who remained in active service with the University until 1917 and died in 1924." (Chemistry at Stanford. Stanford University.)

Cara Stillman [twin]
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Place: Chicago, IL - in the Chicago fire of 1903

Minna Stillman [twin]
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Dorothy Stillman
Born: 13 Jul 1888
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Married: Robert Francis Duryea
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Date Married: 16 Apr 1914