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William was born on September 24, 1835 in Homer, New York, United States, the son of Prentice Samuel Stoddard by his first wife, Sarah Ann (Osborn). He was a descendant of Ralph Stoddard, who was in Groton, Connecticut, as early as 1695.
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William was born on September 24, 1835 in Homer, New York, United States, the son of Prentice Samuel Stoddard by his first wife, Sarah Ann (Osborn). He was a descendant of Ralph Stoddard, who was in Groton, Connecticut, as early as 1695.
William received his early education in private schools and at Homer Academy. From 1849 until 1853 he worked in his father's book and publishing shop at Syracuse. In 1858 he received the degree of A. B. , cum laude, from the University of Rochester.
After graduation he became affiliated with the Central Illinois Gazette at West Urbana, Illinois, his name first appearing as joint editor of this weekly paper in August 1858. At West Urbana (now Champaign), Stoddard met Abraham Lincoln, and although reared in New York as a disciple of William H. Seward, he was instantly won by Lincoln's personality.
The young editor worked ceaselessly for Lincoln's election in the Illinois senatorial campaign of 1858 and he was one of the first Illinois editors to suggest him for the presidency.
The second article, however, an editorial entitled "Who Shall Be President?" did not appear in the Gazette until December 7, 1859.
In spite of Stoddard's belief to the contrary, he was not the first editor to put Lincoln forward as a candidate. The Olney Times came out in his behalf on November 19, 1858, and on December 16, 1858, the Chicago Press and Tribune published an editorial reprint from the Reading, Pa. , Berks and Schuylkill Journal in which Lincoln was suggested for the presidency. Stoddard worked vigorously for Lincoln in the campaign of 1860, and in recognition of his services, Lincoln, in 1861, appointed him as a secretary to sign land patents.
In April of the same year, with Lincoln's permission, he enlisted as a private for three months' service in the United States Volunteers. Upon his discharge, he was appointed an assistant private secretary to Lincoln, with the task of sorting out for the waste basket the scores of letters received from office seekers, "blackguards, " and "lunatics. "
Except for occasional help from department clerks, John George Nicolay, John Hay, and Stoddard attended to all of the clerical work at the executive office during the early part of Lincoln's administration. Stoddard relates the "queer kind of tremor" that came over him as he copied from "Abraham Lincoln's own draft of the first Emancipation Proclamation".
From 1873 to 1875 he served as a clerk in the department of docks, New York City. His books for boys, some seventy-six in number, were perhaps his greatest literary successes.
He spent the later years of his life at Madison, New Jersey, where he died.
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He was an ardent opponent of slavery and supporter of President Lincoln.
On July 25, 1870, he married Susan Eagleson Cooper of New York, by whom he had five children.