William Olin Stillman

William Olin Stillman (September 9, 1856 – March 15, 1924) was an American physician, animal welfare activist, humanitarian and medical writer.

Biography

Stillman was born in Normansville, New York. He graduated from Albany Medical College with his M.D. degree in 1878 and worked as a physician at a sanitarium in Saratoga Springs (1878–1883). He obtained a Master of Arts from Union College in 1880.

Stillman married Frances M. Rice on April 18, 1880.

Award

The American Humane Association offers the William O. Stillman award to animals who in the face of danger have saved human lives or vice versa. The award is given "for recognition of a humane act of rescuing animals at personal risk or of the rescue by an animal of human life by virtue of extreme intelligence in an emergency. To an individual or to an animal."

Selected publications

The Future of the New York State Historical Association (1912) The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1912)