Joseph Stickney (1840–1903) was a wealthy coal broker, hotelier, and socialite, mostly active in Pennsylvania.
He was a native of Concord, New Hampshire, and made a fortune before the age of thirty by investing in the coal business.
Stickney constructed the luxurious Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which opened in 1902, the year before his death.
Stickney died on December 21, 1903 from a stroke of aploxy in New York City.
[2] In 1913, his widow Carolyn Foster Stickney[3] was remarried to Aymon de Faucigny-Lucinge (1862–1922), a French aristocrat.