Thomas Stanley, of New Kent County

Often confused with Bt. Thomas Stanley, son of Edward Stanley and Elizabeth Bosville. Bt. That Thomas Stanley served in Parliament, has an excellent biography on line, and did not come to Virginia.

Biography

http://mckinneygenealogy.org/p2728.htm

“Emigrated before 1687, married Mary Home [sic: unknown] in 1687 in New Kent, Virginia. Quaker. No connection proven to the Stanley family of the Earls of Derby.”

"The Stanley Family and the Hutchins Family were closely inter-married. Thomas Stanley, from England, came to the Virginia Colony about 1700, with his three sons, James, Thomas, and John. They settled in Hanover County.

His three sons were baptized in St. Peter’s Church, New Kent County, VA in 1688, 1689, and 1691:

• James Stanley married Catherine Hutchins, daughter of Nicholas. They had a family of eight, viz., William, James, Mary, Martha, Micajah, Agnes, Strangeman and Elijah. This family moved to Guilford County, North Carolina, 1764, and are ancestors of a vast number.
• Thomas Stanley, Junior, married twice, and had a family of eleven.
• John Stanley married as his second wife, Martha Hutchins, daughter of Nicholas. They had a family of five, Ursula, Milly, Joshua, Thomas, and Agatha. The Alice Stanley, whom John Hutchins married, 1757, was a daughter of this John Stanley by his first wife.

The descendants of these Stanley families are extremely numerous. The Stanleys were of the Friends Faith. Cedar Creek Meeting House was on Stanley land, and the Stanleys were the first overseers."

Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanley-103

Nov. 1720

Thomas Stanley Sr and his sons purchased land in the part of New Kent Co. that was erected into Hanover Co

Thomas Stanley, Sr for 25 shillings 251 acres on both sides of Cawthorns Branch in Hanover Co. adjoining his line and that of John Williamson, William Harris, and Chiswell[3]

Assumed dead shortly thereafter. Possibly buried at Cedar Creek Quaker Cemetery.

References

• Stanley Family Association
• The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Volumes 1 & 6

Origins

The parents below are NOT correct.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116024672/thomas-stanley

He is called BROTHER in the History of Hanover Co VA, the Quakers were often called "BROTHER"

Baronet Thomas Stanley
{Any titled European that came to America lost their title when they signed the Oath to America,}

• born & christened Saint Peters Parish* son of Baronet Edward Stanley and Elizabeth Wyatt Basville 2 other sons(his brothers),

Jacob(married Elizabeth Page, died Wilkes Co NC) and Joseph(married Mary, died unknown to me)

"Thomas Sr, Thomas Jr, James and John Stanley being granted in 1714, 800 acres in Hanover under patent from the honorable Alexander Spotswood, his Majesty'e Lt. Governor and Commandoer in Chief of this Dominion." "He was one of the early settlers of Hanover County VA. A Thomas Stanley is in the record as early as 1686." from: History of Hanover County VA

source for info on John: The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Volumes 1 & 6

Comments

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanley-103

The data included in Thomas's Find-a-Grave Memorial is unsourced fictional nonsense. There is no connection between this Thomas and the Stanley's of Bickerstaff. His parentage and exact place and time of birth are unknown. His 2 wives names are unknown. There is nothing to indicate he had a middle name of Horton. Thus far records and DNA have only been able to prove 3 sons James, Thomas Jr., and John. He was last mentioned in Cedar Creek MM Minutes as still living in 1724. Sir Thomas Stanley of Bickerstaff died in 1714 in England and never immigrated to the American Colonies.

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2509795/cedar-creek-quaker-grav... Western Hanover County, near Montpelier, located approx 3 miles East of the site of the Cedar Creek Meeting House. Approx 60 Graves, no headstones have been found. The Hanover Historical Society found the graves. The Richmond Times Dispatch did a brief story on the Graveyard. This property was once owned by the Stanley family, Progenitors: Thomas Stanley Sr and Mary Holmes.
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~stanfam/genealogy/immigran.htm
• Stanley and Allied Families: Descendants of the Quaker Stanley Families of Colonial Virginia, Volume 10. National Stanley Family Association. GoogleBooks
• Virginia Quaker Stanleys and descendants. compiled by Celeste Terrell Barnhill ; assisted by George Tatum Stanley and Clayton V. Stanley. (1931). link Chiefly ancestors and some of their descendants of Thomas Stanley Sr. of Hanover County, Virginia. "The English Ancestry of the Quaker branch of the Stanleys in Virginia is not historically verified . The commonly accepted tradition is that they came from Lancastershire, Eng...Thomas Stanley, Sr., and his sons, purchased land in the part of New Kent Co. that was erected into Hanover Co., Nov. 1720.
• ” Hi guys, been working on the Stanley Quaker lineage working with sources from the National Stanley Family Assoc. as well as the Western Virginia Chapter of the Stanley Family Assoc. Thomas Stanley is recognized as our oldest proven ancestor and the likely first immigrant of the Virginia Quaker Stanley Family. Many enjoy speculation about connection to Edward Stanley of Preston and the Bickerstaff line of Royalty, but the documentation just isn't there. It appears that some erroneous merge must have taken place leading to extra wives and children as well. To my knowledge, there is no documented proof of either of Thomas's wives names, and he only has 3 documented sons: James, Thomas Jr, and John. Anyone have any documentation stating otherwise? If not I would like to correct these errors?”
• See this link for information about Sir Thomas Stanley and his son Edward. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/st...

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CHAPTER TWO  
The Name of Stanley In America  

    Genealogical Register     Early Virginia Immigrants     Early Settlers of Maryland     John Wright Stanley     Alfred Stanley     David Sloan Stanley     Henry Morton Stanley     Francis Edgar Stanley     Governors of Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia

There are records available which outline the arrival of Stanleys into the American colonies as early as 1635, into Massachusetts and Connecticut. Later, in about 1680, two brothers descended from Sir John Stanley Lord Deputy of Ireland landed at New Kent County, Virginia. The foregoing chapter outlines another descendant of Sir John who arrived in Virginia about 1702. There is little doubt, though all pedigrees are not here listed, that the earliest cases of the name of Stanley in the American colonies are descended from the same line of English STANLEYs. The Genealogical Register provided the following:  
During the year 1634, a man named Thomas Stanley arrived in the colonies as a free man and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts. Records for this man exist in 1635 and 1640, when he was a representative and member of the ar. co.  
The second of the name Stanley to immigrate to the American colonies was Timothy Stanley in the year 1635. He enter the colonies a free man and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  
Third, to enter the colonies was Christopher Stanley. He entered as a free man and settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1641. By occupation, he was a tailor.  
By all accounts, the above listed men were the first of the name to arrive in the colonies. The following list was found in Early Virginia Immigrants:  
"Not since the publication of Hotten's Immigrants has a successful effort been made to gather together, in one volume, a list of the thousands of persons who came to Virginia during the early period of her life.  
The records of the Land Office in Richmond remain the only source from which these names can now be obtained. As the records stand, it is simply impossible, without the most extensive and expensive research, to obtain names of persons who came to Virginia, unless they themselves were patentees of land, and the great majority of immigrants do not appear as patentees.  
Nearly twenty‑five thousand names have been collected from the original records and placed in alphabetical order. The search has been systematic and thorough, and every name from 1623 (when the records began) down to 1666 has been noted, with the date of appearance."  
Those persons named Stanley are here enumerated:  
Alice Stanley 1652 Christopher Stanley 1652, Northampton County

George Stanley 1656 John Stanley 1639, Accomack County William Stanley 1648, Northampton County William Stanley 1649, Northampton County Adam Stanly 1653 Hugh Stanly 1649, Northampton County Judith Stanly 1655, New Kent County William Stanly 1654, Lower Norfolk County  
The following list was found in The Early Settlers of Maryland. The list was compiled from records of land patents from 1633 to 1680, as found at the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, 1968  
... this is a selective index. It includes the names of persons who came to Maryland with the intent of staying here, whether they provided their own transportation, or someone else provided it.  
Certain words that appear frequently in the remarks column have special meaning as used in this index. 'Immigrated' (I) means the individual furnished his own transportation to Maryland, while Transported (T) means that some other indexed person paid for his passage. Often a person listed as Transported is also described as a Servant (S), which means that he had contracted to repay the cost of passage by acting as a servant for a number of years. Under certain of the Conditions of Plantation, a servant was entitled to claim fifty acres of land upon completing his period of servitude."  
Peter Standley Trans 1660 Robert Standley Imm from Virginia, with wife, 1661 Robert Standley Trans from Virginia 1672 Adam Stanley Imm 1658 Frances Stanley Trans 1679, wife of James George Stanley Imm. 1667 Hugh Stanley Married Dorothy, widow of Giles Sadler, prior to 1663 James Stanley Of Cecil County, Imm 1679 John Stanley Service 1666, of St. Clements Bay John Stanley Trans 1667, son of William John Stanley Service 1676, of St. Mary's County  

John Stanley Trans 1679, son of James John Stanley Commissioned Deputy Surveyor, Talbot County, 1676 Mary Stanley Trans 1667, wife of William Mary Stanley Trans 1670 Thomas Stanley Trans 1656 Thomas Stanley Trans 1664 Thomas Stanley Trans 1667, son of William Thomas Stanley Trans 1672

William Stanley Trans 1658 William Stanley Trans 1661 William Stanley Imm from Virginia 1667, to Swan Island Talbot County, Maryland William Stanley Imm 1667, of Calvert County George Stanly Trans 1668 William Stanly Trans 1658  
Part One  
John Wright Stanly 1742‑1781  
The following was taken from A Rough Road in a Good Land, Dictionary of American Biography and information obtained from the North Carolina State Library, Genealogy Division.  
John Wright Stanly was born 1742 in Charles City County, Virginia, the son of Dancy and Elizabeth Wright Stanly. Other children of Dancy and Elizabeth Stanly were Dancy, Jr., Richard Dancy, Susannah, and Wright who was born in 1751.  
By tradition, Dancy Stanly was the son of Major John Stanly of Talbot County, Maryland. Major John Stanly is said to be the son of William Stanly, also of Talbot County, who was a direct descendant of the Earl of Derby.  
John is established as having fourteen children, nine of which can be accounted for by the North Carolina State Library: John, born 1774; Ann, 1775; Lydia, 1777; Richard, 1778; Wright, 1779; Alexander Hamilton; Fabius; Frank, who lived at Danville, Virginia; and Major Alfred, of Alabama who was touted as being a Confederate Guerrilla. Of the other five children, one is mentioned below, Thomas.  
John Wright Stanly settled in New Bern, North Carolina in 1773 after failing in a business venture in Honduras. (He had been put in jail in Philadelphia in 1772 for bad debts) He prospered after settling in Craven County, and built a house in New Bern that cost $20,000. This house still stands as a public library and showplace. He owned thirteen privateers; one of them named the General Nash was famous on the high seas during the War of 1812. He lost most of his ships to the British Navy during the war. He acquired a large wharf and distillery, and owned sixty‑nine slaves, which made him one of the largest slaveholders in North America. Stanly County, North Carolina was named for him. He had wealth, position and influence in North Carolina. He died at the age of forty‑seven.  
In 1802 his son John Wright Stanly, who at age twenty‑three

had already held office in his county killed in a duel ex‑Governor Richard Dobbs Spaugh, age fifty‑five, over political views. The duel was fought behind the present Masonic Lodge Hall in New Bern. Each man used a one‑shot flintlock pistol. Each man reloaded and fired four times. Stanly had a bullet in his coat collar. On the fourth shot, the ex‑Governor was killed. The duel  
destroyed the good name of Stanly in North Carolina since Spaugh was a very popular man.  
Another son, Thomas Stanly, sitting at a banquet table in New Bern, was insulted when a piece of bread thrown across the table fell in his cup of tea and splashed tea on his vest. He challenged the bread thrower, Louis D. Henry, and was killed in the duel that followed.  
Edward Stanly, son of John Wright Stanley II, took the side of the Union in the Civil War in 1860. There was some confusion about the State of North Carolina remaining in the Union, and President Lincoln appointed him acting Governor. The state had a strong elected governor in the personality of Zeb Vance, and no one paid any attention to Stanly's appointment. Edward Stanly, in disgust, left the state and moved to California. He was elected to Congress from a western state. While serving in the Congress, he fought one of the last duels ever fought by an office holder in the United States.  
Edward Stanly  
This son of John Wright Stanley II deserves particular attention in addition to the foregoing statement.  
He gained from his father very strong nationalistic opinions and an intense hatred for the Democratic Party, which shaped his public life. His mother was the daughter of Martin Frank of Jones County. His education in the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy at Middleton, Connecticut, where he was a student from 1827 until 1829, tended to strengthen his Federalism. Having taken up the study of law, he was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began his practice in Beaufort County, North Carolina. Soon thereafter, he married the daughter of Hugh Jones of Hyde County. She died about 1850, and some ten years later, he married Cornelia, a sister of Joseph C. Baldwin, then an associate of the Supreme Court of California.  
He was a successful lawyer, but his ambitions were almost wholly political. In 1837, he was elected to Congress as a Whig. He served three terms, distinguishing himself by his eloquence, his readiness to debate, and his numerous quarrels. He became, as John Quincy Adams expressed it, "the terror of the Lucifer Party" in his Memoirs, Volume Eleven,

1876, page 19. Several times, he engaged in personal encounters on the floor of the House, and he fought a duel with S. W. Inge of Alabama. By virtue of his ability, however, he became leader of his party in the House. Defeated for re‑election in 1843, he was a delegate to the Whig Convention in Baltimore in 1844, and was elected to the House of Commons, being re‑elected in 1846. In 1847, he became Attorney General for the State, but resigned the next year to return to the legislature. Again elected to Congress in 1848, he supported the compromise measures of 1850. Making his campaign on the abstract issue of secession and declaring his readiness to vote men and money to whip any seceding state back into the Union, he was returned to Congress by an increased majority. Defeated for re‑election in 1853, he moved to California in 1854 and in San Francisco won instant success in his career. He supported Freemont in 1856. And in 1857, though still a slaveholder and scarcely in accord with his party, he was nominated for Governor by the Republicans, but was defeated.  
Secession brought only anger and horror to Edward's mind. Unaware of the change in public sentiment he could not rid himself of the belief that the withdrawal of North Carolina from the Union was the result of Democratic deception. He thought if they could be informed of the purposes of the North by one in whom they had confidence; they would renew their allegiance. He expressed to Lincoln his eagerness to undertake that mission. In 1862, he was made Military Governor of the state. He assumed office on May 26, and soon learned he had an impossible task. He could get no hearing and was despised as a traitor. Soon he was also in trouble with the abolitionists. He found himself unable to protect private property from what he characterized as "the most shameful pillaging performed by an army in any civilized land." The last straw was the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, to which he was bitterly opposed. He resigned and returned to California in March 1863.  
After the War he opposed the Congressional Reconstruction with is accustomed vehemence. In 1867, he left the Republican Party to canvas the state against the policy. His death, following a stroke of apoplexy, occurred in San Francisco.

Part Two  
Taken from A Rough Road in a Good Land, Chapter Four:  
Lord Granville of England owned what is now the counties of Washington and Sullivan in Tennessee. His property may have included a section of southwest Virginia. This territory was under the jurisdiction of the Province of North Carolina.  
Granville sent Gilbert and Robert Christian to the Holston River Valley to investigate his land holdings. Robert Crockett, who was a kinsman of the famous Davy Crockett, must have been one of the first settlers in this valley since he was killed here by the Indians in 1769. We do know that the majority of the first settlers came from Pittsylvania County in Virginia, and that after a short time the town of Jonesboro, Tennessee became the county seat of the new county.  
Two men, Henry Skaggs and Joseph Drake, brought a hunting party to the valley in 1770. The Cherokee Indians found and robbed this party of a large collection of furs. The hunters left an inscription on a beech tree which read, "2300 deer skins lost, Ruination by God." Carter and Parker's store was established in the valley in 1771.  
Daniel Boone, from the Yadkin River Valley in North Carolina, visited the Holston River Valley on what must have been an Indian or game trail that lead from the area of Johnson City of today toward Cumberland Gap on the Tennessee ‑Kentucky line. He marked on a beech tree on this trail, "D. Boon cilled a bar on tree 1760."  
The first Stanley in southwest Virginia, by records and tradition, was named Alfred Stanley. It s from this man that Lawrence Stanley traces his own lineage. He used family stories, family Bibles, and records kept at Scott, Bouteroit, and Pittsylvania counties in Virginia; Hawkins, Washington, Sullivan, and Unicoi counties in Tennessee; Burke, Clancy, Avery, Mitchell, Madison, Buncombe Jackson, Macon, and Cherokee counties in North Carolina and Fannin, Union, Gilmer, and Whitfield counties Georgia.  
Here is related a story, as told by Lawrence Stanley, of the Stanley family in Stanley Valley, Hawkins County, Tennessee:  
“ ... In order to understand the statement of Cissy Green in regard to her grandfather's visit to Virginia to see his folks, it is necessary to look again at the Holston River Valley, especially in Scott County, Virginia and Hawkins County, Tennessee.

  On June 4, 1969, the writer interviewed Mr. Hard near the Big Creek Baptist Church in Stanley Valley, Hawkins County, Tennessee. This man said he had always heard the Stevenson farm, owned at present by Ralph Jennings and sometimes called the Michael Looney place, was also known as the Stanley place, and that Alfred Stanley was the name used by his folks when they talked about the Stanley place for which the creek, knob and valley were named.  
He asked the writer to see Mr. A. W. Johnson and Mr. Jennings. Johnson lived next door to Mr. Jennings. The writer saw Johnson the next morning. He said the name Alfred Stanley was a named used by his folks when he was a boy. He also said the old Stanley cabin stood in the back yard of the present Looney house and near this cabin, there had been some ditches and embankments of what appeared to be fortifications built by white men. On the creek bank nearby, Mr. Johnson said, Indian relics were found every time the field was plowed when he was a boy.  
On this site a man named Stanley had built this log cabin about 1777, and in so doing gave his name to the valley, creek and knob that runs all the way from the mouth of Big Creek at the junction with the Holston River, to Gate City, Virginia, or about twenty‑six miles.  
Sometime during 1777 Mr. Stanley was in the woods near his cabin with is gun and an axe cutting timbers for barn building on this 1,200 acre grant, made to him for his year's service in the Revolutionary War. He heard screams, a dog bark, and a gun fired at the cabin. He rushed through the woods to find his wife and child lying on the ground near the door, stuck full of arrows, scalped and mutilated with a tomahawk. They were the victims of a Creek and Cherokee Indian was party, apparently under the direction of a red‑headed Cherokee chief known as Benge, or Captain Bench, as he was known to white settlers in the valley.  
Mr. Stanley, in grief over the loss of his family, sold or gave his grant to Michael Looney, who had received a further grant of 1,200 acres for his service in the Lord Dunemore's War and the Revolution. Michael Looney came from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby, was the governor of the Isle of Man, and there is no doubt that the Stanley who built the cabin, and gave his name to the valley, was in some way kinsman of the English Stanley family. Michael Looney moved to this valley from Bouteroit County, Virginia in 1780. Immediately after the grant was given up to Mr. Looney, Mr. Stanley returned to Virginia.  
The town of Stanley, seven miles from Luray, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley has a population of 1,039 people, and Stanleytown, Virginia, population 500, is in Henry County near Martinsville, next door to Pittsylvania County. From this area, the early settlers moved to the Holston River Valley prior to 1780.  
Luray, Virginia is no further away from Stanley Valley in Tennessee than the distance the Stanley families covered in the great move from Virginia to Georgia, by way of North Carolina.

Part Three  
David Sloan Stanley 1828‑1902  
Taken from Dictionary of American Biography: This man was a soldier, born at Cedar Valley, Ohio, the son of John Bratton and Sarah (Peterson) Stanley, and a descendant of Thomas Stanley who came to America from England in 1634. David was educated in a log schoolhouse until he was fourteen years old, when he was apprenticed to study medicine. In 1848, he entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1852 as second lieutenant of dragoons. His first assignments were in Texas and California. In April 1857, he married Anna Maria, daughter of J. B. B. Wright, an Army surgeon. In 1856, he was active in the Kansas disturbances, and the next year in operations against the Cheyenne Indians.  
The commencement of the Civil War found him a captain of cavalry at Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was offered colonelcy of an Arkansas regiment in the Confederate service, but he declined. In May 1861, he escaped from Southern territory by a hazardous march to Kansas. Later that same year he served in the Missouri campaign, receiving and accepting a commission as Brigadier‑general of volunteers in October 1861. He next participated in the capture of Corinth, Mississippi. When the Confederates attempted to retake that city, he counter‑attacked and drove the enemy back. For this victory, he was given command of a cavalry division in Tennessee, becoming a Major‑general in April 1863. He ably seconded the campaigns of Rosecrans during 1863. In 1864, he took part in Sherman's Atlanta, Georgia operations, being particularly commended for gallant conduct at Resaca, Georgia. On July 27th, he succeeded to the command of the Fourth Corps, and in September (1864) he was wounded at Jonesboro, Georgia.  
In June 1865, his Fourth Corps was sent to Texas to support diplomatic relations against French interference in Mexico. In February 1866, he was mustered out of the volunteer service as a Major‑general. In July, he became Colonel, 22nd Infantry in the Regular Army. He was then sent to the Indian frontier. In 1873, he led the expedition into the Yellowstone area, and between 1879 and 1882, he settled several Indian disturbances in Texas. In 1884, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier‑general, U. S. Army, and subsequently commanded in Texas until his retirement in 1892.  
He was governor of the Soldiers Home, Washington, from 1893 to 1898, and thereafter lived in Washington until his death.

Part Four  
Henry Morton Stanley 1841‑1904  
The following narrative was taken from A Rough Road in a Good Land:  
One ... of the earliest ... Stanleys came to New Orleans and one of his descendants was living there about 1850 who had become a wealthy merchant. He had no children, and one day a young man appeared at one of his stores looking for employment. His name was John Rollands or Rowland, which may have been the English spelling of his name. He was born near the town of Denbigh in Wales. His father died when he was two years old. His mother married again. He was a pupil at the poor house of St. Ashap for several years. Then he was an instructor at the town of Mould in Flintshire. He went to Liverpool and shipped as a cabin boy to New Orleans where he met Mr. Stanley. The wealthy childless merchant liked the young homeless man who worked in his store, and gave him rapid promotion, and finally adopted him as a son and gave him his name which was Henry Morton Stanley.  
Henry Stanley, bored by life in New Orleans ran away to the wild area of Arkansas, and on to California camping with Indians along the way. His adopted father thought him dead, and welcomed him as one brought back from the dead when he returned to New Orleans.  
Shortly after he returned his adopted father died without a Will. Henry, who had been told he would be an heir to Mr. Stanley's estate, found himself facing angry relatives who took over the merchant's property leaving him nothing but the name of his adopted father. He joined the Southern army at the beginning of the Civil War. He was captured in one of the fierce battles, and promptly joined the Union army where he served on a ship of war.  
He was destined to go as a newspaper reporter with Lord Napier's army to Magdala in Ethiopia. He witnessed the fall of Magdala and the death of Emperor Theodore, King of Abyssenia. As a newspaperman, he was sent back to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone who was supposed to be lost in the heart of the great continent. He succeeded in his task and was sent back to rescue Emin Pasha stranded in Central Africa after the death of General Gordon at Khartoum in the Sudan.  
Later he was to explore the Congo River from the Central African lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. He was destined to become one of the world's greatest travelers and explorers. We do not  
know who the relatives were that inherited the New Orleans merchant's wealth, or how he was related to other Stanleys in America. We do know that his name was borne only by an adopted son, who after becoming famous returned to England and died there. He was always known to the world as Henry Morton Stanley, the man who found Livingstone.

Part Five  
Francis Edgar Stanley 1849‑1918  
This inventor and manufacturer was born in Kingfield, Maine, the son of Solomon and Apphia (French) Stanley. His father was a teacher and farmer, a descendant of Matthew Stanley who emigrated from England to Lynn, Massachusetts about 1646. He attended public school at Kingfield and graduated in 1871 at the Farmington Normal and Training School. For a number of years he taught school in various towns in Maine, at the same time having a talent for crayon portraiture he built a portrait business. In 1874, the demands of his work led him to give up teaching. He removed to Lewiston, Maine, where he believed a larger opportunity lay. In the course of the succeeding nine years, which were successful ones, he added photography to his business and became one of the leading photographers in New England. Having begun in 1883 to experiment with photographic dry plates, he devised a formula for a dry plate firm. The firm seemed to have such possibilities that in partnership with his brother (Freelan 0. Stanley) he organized the Stanley Dry Plate Company in Lewiston. Their products soon came into general use in the United States and other countries. In 1890, the brothers established a new plant in Newton, Massachusetts, where better railroad facilities were to be had. In 1905, the brothers sold their business to the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York.  
Meanwhile, Francis had become interested in steam automobiles, and early in 1897 began a series of experiments, which resulted in the production of the first steam motorcar to be successfully operated in New England. This vehicle was known as the Stanley Steamer.  
Having set up a manufacturing plant to produce one hundred steam motorcars in 1898, the company and all patents were sold. In 1902, however, the brothers repurchased their original patents and established the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, with Francis as president. The brothers continued their business until retirement in 1917.  
At the time of his death, which was the result of an automobile accident, Francis was survived by his widow and three children.

Part Six  
Governors of Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia  
That the name of Stanley has figured prominently in the political history of England and America is well known fact. Since the Norman Conquest in the year 1066, through the War of the Roses, a line of Earls of Derby, Lord Deputies of Ireland, and Prime Ministers of England the Stanleys have a proud heritage in Great Britain. Upon moving to the Colonies, as early as 1634, the Stanleys have played a prominent role in the government of the United States. There have been Congressional representatives, Whigs and later secessionists. In recent history, three men became governor of their states.  
  William Eugene Stanley Kansas 1899‑1903  
Born in December 1844 in Knox County, Ohio, son of Almon Fleming Stanley, a physician, and Angelina Sapp Stanley, both of whom were Methodists. Brother of Hattie and J. R., he married to Emma Lenora Hills in May 1876. He was the father of Charles, who died in infancy, Harry Wilbur, Harriett Eugenia and William Eugene.  
He was educated in common schools, briefly attended Ohio Wesleyan College, and studied law in Kenton and Dayton, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1868 and moved to Jefferson County, Kansas, in 1870.  
As a Republican he was County Attorney, 1871‑72; then he moved to Wichita and served as the Sedgwick County Attorney, 1874‑80. He was in the State House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883 and declined offers of appointment from Governor Morrill to various state courts. In 1898, he was nominated by the Republican State Convention for Governor and defeated Populist John W. Leedy, the incumbent. William Stanley became the fifteenth Kansas governor in January 1899. He was the first governor to live in the Kansas Executive Mansion.  
Considerable reorganization of the Kansas government took place during his four years as governor, although he was usually unsuccessful in passing legislation to abolish 'useless' offices. A Traveling Library Commission was established and a factory to make binder‑twine was set up at the State Penitentiary. The Supreme Court justices were increased from three to seven, and he angered the railroads when he did not make an appointment from among their spokesmen. Prohibition was less an issue under him than before, although he was lectured by Carry Nation on his proper role as governor. He strongly criticized the Leavenworth County Sheriff for permitting a mob to lynch a man. The legislature passed a motion condemning the lynching and set into motion a drive for capital punishment.  
In 1902, William sought a seat in the U. S. Senate. After the State Legislature was deadlocked for sixteen ballots, he threw his support to Chester I. Long, who was thus elected.  
He resumed his practice of law in Wichita. He was appointed to the Dawes Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, with headquarters in Tishomingo, Indian Territory, where he served from 1903 to 1904.  
He was an active Methodist. He died in Wichita October 13, 1910, and was buried there in Highland Cemetery.  
  Augustus Owsley Stanley Kentucky 1915‑1919  
Augustus Stanley was born in May 1867, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. He was son of William Stanley, a minister, and Amanda (Owsley) Stanley, the eldest of seven children, and a member of the Christian Church. He married Sue Soaper in Henderson, Kentucky in 1903, and was father of Augustus Owsley, Jr., William Soaper, and Marion Shelby.  
He attended Gordon Academy at Nicholasville, the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College at Lexington, and Centre College at Danville. At Centre College he was awarded the B. S. degree in 1889. After teaching for four years, he read law under Gilbert Cassidy of Flemington, Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar there in 1894. Four years later, he moved to Henderson and entered the Democratic Party.  
In 1900, he served as presidential elector for the Bryan‑Stevenson ticket. He was elected as a Democrat to the fifty‑eighth and five succeeding Congresses, serving from 1903 until 1915. As a Congressman, he attracted national attention by sponsoring and conducting an investigation of the United States Steel Corporation. In August 1914, he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, losing to former Governor John Beckham. In 1915, he defeated Henry McChesney for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The following November he was elected Governor over Edwin P. Morrow, the Republican nominee.  
Under Augustus Stanley's leadership the General Assembly enacted Kentucky's first Workman's Compensation Law, strengthened the Corrupt Practices Act, and adopted the state's first budget system.  
On May 19, 1919, he resigned the governorship in order to assume the U. S. Senate seat to which he had been elected in 1918. In 1924, he was defeated for re‑election to the Senate defeated by the Republican candidate, Frederick Sackett, Jr.  
Augustus resumed the practice of law in Washington, D. C. In May 1930, he was appointed by President Hoover to the International Joint Commission, which had been established to arbitrate disputes arising along the U.S. ‑Canadian border. Elected Chairman of the IJC, he served in that capacity until his retirement in 1954. He died in 1958 and was buried at Frankfurt Cemetery in Washington, D. C.

Thomas Bahnson Stanley Virginia 1954‑1958  
Thomas Stanley was born in 1890, near Spencer, Henry County, Virginia. He was a son of Crockett, a farmer, and Susan Matildah (Walker) Stanley. He was a Methodist. In 1918, he married Anne Pocahontas Bassett, and was father of Anne, Thomas B., and John D. Stanley.  
He attended public schools of Henry County, and worked in the coalmines of North Polk Coal and Coke Company in Maybeury, West Virginia. In 1912, he graduated from Eastman National Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York.  
He worked as a bookkeeper with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston‑Salem, North Carolina from 1912 to 1913. He was a clerk with the Bank of Ridgeway, Virginia in 1913; a clerk‑bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Martinsville, Virginia from 1914 to 1916; and a cashier at the First National Bank of Rural Retreat, Virginia from 1916 to 1920.  
He served as vice president of Vaughn‑Bassett Furniture Company in Galax, Virginia from 1921 to 1922; vice president of the Bassett Furniture Company from 1922 to 1924. He organized the Stanley Furniture Company in 1924, and raised purebred Holstein cattle.  
He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, serving from 1930 until 1946. He was later elected to the U. S. House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Burch. He was subsequently elected to four succeeding Congresses, serving from 1946 until 1953.  
In 1953, he resigned the House of Representatives to seek office as Governor of Virginia. Running as a Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1953. During his administration, he recommended an increase in teacher's salaries, and proposed a higher gasoline tax to increase state highway funds. He also signed a bill restricting roadside advertising; favored federal aid for maintenance of interstate highways; and formed a resolution, along with eight other governors from coal‑producing states, which requested the U. S. Congress to restrict imports of residual oil and natural gas. He also urged repeal of the state constitutional provision that required the state to maintain a public school system.  
Since he was ineligible to succeed himself, he left office in 1958. He returned to his furniture business. He later became a trustee at Randolph‑Macon College; president and director of the First National Bank of Virginia; and, chairman of the Commission on State and Local Revenues and Expenditures.  
Thomas Stanley died in July 1970, in Martinville, Virginia. He was buried at Roselawn Park.  

References

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116024672/thomas-stanley (has errors)
2. The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Volumes 1 & 6