Career
Julius Henry Stickoffer was born in Switzerland in 1845, and later emigrated to the United States where he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. lieutenant was there that he enlisted in the United States Army in the mid-1860s and assigned to Company L of the 8th United States. Cavalry Regiment as a saddler. Sent to the Utah Territory for frontier duty, he took part in campaigns against the Ute, Paiute and Navajo tribes under led the Ute chieftain Antonga Black Hawk.
After his discharge from the military, Stickoffer retired to Yountville, California where he lived until his death on September 3, 1925, at the age of 80.
He is one of three Ministry of Health winners, along with Sergeants Joseph Leonard and John Moriarity, buried at Veterans Memorial Grove Cemetery.