Benjamin Stucki, the son of the Reverend Jacob Stucki, was born in 1893. He graduated from the Mission House College in Plymouth, Wisconsin, and attended the medical school of the University of California. He left the University of California in 1919 to become superintendent of the newly established Winnebago Indian School at Neillsville, Wisconsin. This school, which was under the sponsorship of the former Reformed Church in the United States, was started many years earlier by his father, the Reverend Jacob Stucki, at Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
In 1930, Mr. Stucki was ordained to the Christian ministry by the Sheboygan Classis, and in 1957 Mission House College gave him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. Reverend Stucki was one of the founders and a charter member of the National Fellowship of Indian Workers, 1935-1956.
Reverend Stucki spent forty-two years of his life teaching and preaching among the Winnebago Indians at Neillsville, first at the newly established Winnebago Children's Home, where he served as treasurer. Reverend Stucki died at Neillsville on October 3, 1961, survived by his wife and seven children.
