Edgar Stillman was born and spent his youth in San Francisco, but was not married there nor did he live there with his wife Katherine. He attended Stanford where he was suspended for a year for leading a protest against the University president (who was also his uncle) that may or may not have involved forcing him to leave his office by way of the window, spent that year (at his father's insistence) working as a lumberman, returned to Stanford and graduated. During the San Francisco earthquake and fire, he carried his father (who was frail) from the Union Club, saving his life. He moved east, attended Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and married Katherine (Chase) Stillman, of Waterbury Connecticut. About 1910, they joined several other young people in clearing a block of slum housing along Manhattan's East River lived in by Italian and Japanese poor. These young families (not the poor ones, of course) then built their Georgian houses around a large interior garden with an enormous oak. They called the block Sutton Square, and the Stillman house was at 6 Sutton Square, adjoining a house built by Edgar's brother-in-law, the professor of law Joseph Chamberlain (who had married Elizabeth Stillman). Once built, houses at Sutton Square were bought only with the permission of the other owners, with the result that when Dwight Eisenhower was President of Columbia University (just before he became President of the US) he was not allowed to buy a house because every one else thought he was too boring. 90 years later, it is safe to say that very little slum housing remains in the neighborhood. During and just after WWI, Edgar worked in research at the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) and then as a doctor at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, specializing in diabetes. Edgar and Katherine built a summer house (together with a chauffeur's cottage, other associated buildings, peach and apple orchards and a working farm) near Waterbury, CT, calling it Highfield (it is now a country club).

Edgar Stillman died in 1966, in NYC. Katherine died in 1968, while visiting her sister in Connecticut. - Joseph Chamberlain Stillman; 1999

From The Stanford Gang
The Stillman Dynasty
Edgar Stillman

Dr. Edgar Stillman (1883-1967), a diabetes specialist, graduated from Stanford in 1907 and got his MD at Johns Hopkins in 1911. "He worked with Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke on diabetes at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research until 1922, when he became a specialist in private practice." (Dr. Edgar Stillman, Diabetes Specialist. New York Times, Aug. 26, 1967.)

Elizabeth Stillman
Born: circa 1915
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Died: circa 1973
Place: New York, NY
Married: W. Sinclair Armstrong
Born: circa 1913
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Date Married: circa 1942

Edgar Stillman, Jr
Born: 1919
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Died: 1997
Place: New York, NY
Married: Mary Jameson Sherwood
Born: 1922
Place: New York, NY
Died: 1962
Place: New York, NY
Date Married: ??? - Divorced 1957
Married:2) Joan (Cuyler) Pratt
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Date Married: April 1959

Rufus Cale Stillman
Born: 1921
Place: New York, NY
Lived: 2000
Place: Litchfield, CT
Married: Leslie Caesar
Born: 10 Apr 1923
Place: Utica, NY
Lived: 2000
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Date Married: circa 1942

Katherine Stillman
Born: 1923
Place: New York, NY
Lived: 2000
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Married: Theodore Newton Vail Marsters
Born: circa 1921
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Lived: 2000
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Date Married: circa 1944

Pamela Stillman
Born: circa 1926
Place: New York, NY
Lived: 2000
Place: Memphis, TN
Married:1) ??? Wilson
Born: circa 1924
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Lived:
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Date Married: 1946 - Divorced 1956
Married:2) Harry Landon
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Date Married: 1958

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Additional data and information has been provided by Katherine Chase McCleary