Biographical Sketch (1911):874, p. 808. "John William Stamm (probably the son of Nicholas recorded as William) was born in 1793, and died in 1868, aged seventy-five years, at the borough of Northumberland. He is buried in Riverview Cemetery. For a time he lived in Washingtonville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, where he kept a hotel until 1840, in which year he moved to Point Township, Northumberland County, where he owned land and followed farming. Upon his retirement from active work he settled in Northumberland, in which borough he passed the remainder of his days. His wife Catharine (Kissinger) died out West while with one of her sons who had settled there. The children of John William and Catharine (Kissinger) Stamm were as follows: Benjamin died in Detroit, Mich.; Louis died out West; Andrew, William and G. Washington live out West; Thomas J. is mentioned later; Margaret married Robert Arnold; Sarah married and lived in Iowa; Susan married Joseph Watson."

Biographical Sketch (1997):855, p. 27-28. "John William, born in 1793 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. John ran a hotel in Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, until 1840. He then became a farmer in Point Township. He was married to Catherine Kissinger and he died in 1868. She died ‘out West,’ where one of the children had moved. He is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland, Pennsylvania. They had nine children and little is known of the first eight: Benjamin, Louis, Andrew, William, George Washington, Margaret, Sarah, Susan, and Thomas J."