JOHN S. STACY
IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: John S. Stacy
PHOTO TAKEN: Morse's Palace of Art, 417 Montgomery St., SF, circa 1877-1878
PURCHASED: 2017 Traditions Antique Mall, Wildwood, FL
UPDATE - All three related STACY photos have been claimed by family and are going home!
The cabinet card is fairly thin, with straight-cut edge, rounded corners and thick gold border that extends to the edge of the card, suggesting a time period from 1878-1885.
The man's bow tie tucked under the shirt lapels was fashionable during the decade of the 1870s.
The Photographic Studio Morse's Palace of Art on Montgomery Street is mentioned in the San Francisco City Directory of 1877. Proprietor is George D. Morse who worked as a photographer in San Francisco from the 1860s to at least the mid-1890s. The embossed name G.D. Morse can be seen at lower right front if the photo is held at an angle to the light source.
Also found in the 1877 City Directory is John S. Stacy. He is described as an attorney at law at firm whose office was located at 401 California. His home was Oakland. In 1875 he was part of the Law Firm of Stacy & Tripp (with Dwight K. Tripp). His firm in 1876 was called Stacy & Hart (with William H.H. Hart) and in 1877 the firm was called Stacy, Thompson & Hart, having added James D. Thompson to the shingle.
From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 580.
JOHN S. STACY, attorney and couselor at law, Anamosa. Judge Stacy was born on the 13th of May, 1833, at De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.; his parents were Pelatiah and Jerusha Tanner Stacy. The paternal ancestors were from Massachusetts, thence to Oswego, N.Y., and his grandfather was one of the first settlers in De Kalb. His father served a short time in the war of 1812, at Ogdensburg. His maternal ancestors were settlers in the vicinity of Cooperstown, N.Y., and the remains of many of them rest in the cemetery in that town. In boyhood, John S. Stacy had a great taste for reading, but was accustomed to the hard work of a farm, with only a few months at school each year until he was 16, when he attended an academy at Gouvernenr, N.Y., there preparing for college; he attended one term at Oberlin, Ohio; then entered the Sophomore Class of Union College, and graduated in 1857; it was during President Nott's administration that Mr. Stacy was at Union College. He taught school several terms, studying law at the same time and during vacations. Immigrating westward, he spent a short time in teaching at Dover, Bureau Co., Ill., and, in the spring of 1858, located at Anamosa, Iowa; he entered the law office of Hon. E. Cutler, and was admitted to the bar in the autumn of the same year; he accepted an invitation to become a partner of Mr. Cutler, and the law firm of Cutler & Stacy commenced business on the 1st of January, 1859, which terminated in the autumn of 1862, by Mr. Cutler entering the military service. In 1864, Mr. Stacy engaged in banking, in connection with the practice of law, continuing until the autumn of 1873, when the panic compelled him to surrender. He was actively engaged in the building of the Iowa Midland Railroad, as attorney and Director. He was also President of the Iowa & Minnesota Railway Company, which had so far succeeded as to secure the preliminary negotiations, in London, for a loan that would doubtless have resulted in the success of the enterprise, but for the panic just alluded to, which put a stop to a great many important enterprises. In 1874, Mr. Stacy went to California, and spent two months there; he returned to that State again in 1875, and remained nearly two years, practicing law with success in San Francisco. Mr. Stacy was elected Judge of Jones Co., in 1861, and served one term. Judge Stacy has always been an ardent and active Republican. He was a Delegate to the National Convention which re-nominated Mr. Lincoln in 1864, and was one of his most hearty supporters. In 1858, while in Dover, Ill., Judge Stacy united with the Congregational Church, and, on settling in Iowa, transferred his membership to the Anamosa Church; he is an active Christian worker, and foremost in all philanthropic measures. On the 16th of November, 1862, he married Miss Charlotte A. Kellogg, a daughter of Rev. E. W. Kellogg, who, for forty years, was a Congregational minister in Vermont; she is a lineal descendant of William Bradford, second Governor of the Plymouth Colony; is a woman of fine mental culture and exalted Christian character, a worthy representative of the best Puritan stock; she has three children, who feel daily the molding hand of a Christian mother.
