Joseph Stickney (1840–1903) was a wealthy

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, hotelier, and socialite, mostly active in

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. He was a native of

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, and made a fortune before the age of thirty by investing in the coal business.

Biography

Stickney was born on May 31, 1840, in

, to Joseph Pearson Stickney (1796–1877) and Lucretia Gibson Stickney (1809–1840). In 1881, Stickney and his partner, John N. Conyngham, purchased the large Mount Pleasant Hotel, in the White Mountains region of

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, from lumberman John T. G. Leavitt. It was later demolished. In 1894, he marrie
Carolyn S. Foster
(1869–1936) of

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. There were no children from the union. Stickney constructed the luxurious

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, which opened in 1902, the year before his death. The Mount Washington is one of the few surviving grand hotels of the

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. Stickney died on December 21, 1903 from a stroke of aploxy in

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. In 1913, his widow Carolyn Foster Stickney was remarried to Aymon de Faucigny-Lucinge (1862–1922), a French aristocrat. Stickney was the subject of a September 2019 episode of the podcast ''

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