Early Life
Stuck was born in Paddington, London, England. He attended Westbourne Park Public School and King's College. He immigrated to Texas in 1885 where he was a cowboy near Junction City, Texas, taught in one-room schools at Copperas Creek, Texas, San Angelo, Texas, and San Marcos, Texas. In 1889 he enrolled to study theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He became an Episcopal priest in 1892 first serving at Cuero, Texas and then St. Matthew's Cathedral in Dallas, Texas. In 1904 he moved to Alaska. He travelled widely in Alaska by dogsled visiting parishes and missions on behalf of the church.
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