Family
He married Louise M. Waterman.
His son, Frank W. Stearns, married Emily Williston Clark, eldest daughter of Massachusetts academician and public figure William Smith Clark. F.W. Stearns was a close friend of Calvin Coolidge, joining him as an honored guest at the Republican National Convention in California when Coolidge was Vice President.
Richard H. Stearns had other sons, Richard H. Stearns, Jr. (b. April 25, 1862) who worked in his father's dry goods firm, Frederick R. Stearns, and the Reverend William Foster Stearns (b. April 18, 1859) who was a clergyman and graduate of Amherst College class of 1882.
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