Elmer C Stillwell | HistoryForge

Year	Name	Relation to Head	Address	Age	Race	POB	Marriage	Occupation
1900	Stillwell, Elmer	Head	121 Falls St	49	White	New York	Single	Janitor
1910	Stillwell, Elmer	Head	121 E Falls St	49	White	New York	1st Marriage	Janitor
1920	Stillwell, Elmer C	Head	121 E Falls St	58	White	New York	Married	Carpenter

Name	Relation to Head	Address	Age	Race	POB	Marriage	Occupation
Stillwell, Hannah	Mother	121 Falls St	67	White	New York	Widowed	None
Stillwell, Ira	Brother	121 Falls St	44	White	New York	Divorced	Carpenter

Name	Relation to Head	Address	Age	Race	POB	Marriage	Occupation
Stillwell, Mamie B	Wife	121 E Falls St	29	White	New York	1st Marriage	None
Stillwell, Grace M	Daughter	121 E Falls St	1y 11mo	White	New York	Single	None
Stillwell, Hannah	Mother-in-Law	121 E Falls St	76	White	New York	Widowed	None
White, Marguarite	Lodger	121 E Falls St	28	White	New York	Single	Saleslady

Relatives in 1920 US Census

Name	Relation to Head	Address	Age	Race	POB	Marriage	Occupation
Stillwell, Mamie B	Wife	121 E Falls St	39	White	New York	Married	None
Stillwell, Grace M	Daughter	121 E Falls St	11	White	New York	Single	None
Stillwell, Nelson N	Son	121 E Falls St	7	White	New York	Single	None
Stillwell, Charles E	Son	121 E Falls St	5	White	New York	Single	None
Stillwell, Hannah	Mother	121 E Falls St	86	White	New York	Widowed	None

Elmer C. Stillwell, manager Stillwell & Co. groceries and provisions, home 223 N Aurora St

Norton’s Ithaca City Directory and County Business Directory for 1890-91

E. D. Norton, Printer and Publisher, Ithaca, NY

Elmer C Stillwell, janitor, McGraw Hall, boards 121 Falls St

Norton & Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory for 1899

Ithaca, NY

“The attack of the monkey ‘Dick’ upon his keeper Elmer A. Stillwell, in the basement of McGraw Hall yesterday afternoon, proved quite as serious as told in brief in THE JOURNAL last evening….

‘Dick’ was a Macacus rhesus monkey and came to the McGraw museum from Southeastern Asia in 1898. It has always been a very tame animal up to yesterday with the exception of the time last September when it bit R. E. Sheldon. It was only a common money so its loss will not be felt financially at the museum. It is intended to dissect it and its brain will be preserved by Professor Burt G. Wilder.”

“E. A. Stillwell Victim of Monkey,” Ithaca Daily Journal, February 3, 1905, 3, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj19050203-01.1.3

McGraw Hall was the home of a three-story Museum of Natural History. The basement of McGraw held the “janitor’s quarters” and animals for Professor Burt G Wilder’s comparative anatomy class.

Morris Bishop, History of Cornell, 95-96 and 131; Corey Ryan Earle, “Why the Hill Is Home to Amazing ‘Collections of Collections,’” August 20, 2025, accessed November 28, 2025, https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/earle-mcgraw-museum/

Elmer C Stillwell, janitor, McGraw Hall, home 121 Falls St

Norton & Goodhue’s Ithaca City Directory for 1909

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

Elmer Clarence Stillwell, 1861-1925

Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188602594/elmer-clarence-stillwell