Born in
Stillwell, Ohio, he attended Oxford and College Hill Colleges, where he studied law. He was
admitted to the bar in 1852 and began practice in
Anderson, Indiana. He served as member of the
Ohio House of Representatives in 1856. He served in the
34th Indiana Infantry Regiment of the
Union Army during the
Civil War as a 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster.
Congress Stilwell was elected as a
Republican to the
Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867).
Later career and death He acted as Minister Resident to
Venezuela in 1867 and 1868. He served as president of the First National Bank of Anderson, Indiana, until his death. He died in Anderson as the result of a gunshot wound January 14, 1874. He was interred in Maplewood Cemetery. ==References==