Biography

Dr. Jasper L. Stuckey worked as state geologist for the State of North Carolina and was a retired professor and consultant with N. C. State University (NCSU). He was born July 24, 1891, on a small farm in the Nahunta community, which is located near Princeton in eastern Johnston County, NC. He died August 1, 1979, in Raleigh, NC.

After attending one year of high school in Princeton, NC, Stuckey earned his teaching certificate. He taught in a one-room Johnston County School for a year before reentering Smithfield High School. After graduating in 1914, he entered University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC at Chapel Hill), where he completed a degree in geology, as well as supervised a lime plant for the state. He left school for a year and served as a Rifleman in 81st Army Division before returning to UNC at Chapel Hill to complete his Masters in 1920 and then to Cornell University where he obtained his Doctorate Degree in 1924.

Stuckey was the first state geologist from 1925-1926 and 1940-1964. He was also a retired professor at NCSU and became the first chair of the Geology Department in 1927. He remained with NCSU as a full-time employee until returning to the post of state geologist in 1940 but continued to work part-time with NCSU.

He was an honorary member of the Association of Engineering Geologists and the first State employee to win the Distinguished Citizen Award.

Stuckey married Anabel Stephenson of Smithfield, NC, in 1920. After her death in 1935, he married Gladys Brinkley Stuckey on July 24, 1936, and they had one son, William Jasper Stuckey. Stuckey was previously a member of Central Methodist Church in Raleigh but later converted to the Mormon faith. He was an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and is buried at Mountlawn Memorial Park in Raleigh, NC.

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