Collection	Webster Stanley
Copyright	Oshkosh Public Museum
Description	Albumen copy print on cabinet card stock of Henry A. Stanley.
Medium	Cardstock/Photographic Paper/Ink
Notes	Albumen print on cardstock, bust view of Henry A. Stanley in later life. He wears a suit and has a long gray beard and gray hair. Henry A. Stanley was born on a farm in Medina, Ohio September 21 1828, the eldest son of Webster and Sophia Stanley. He came with his father to Wisconsin in 1835 and they were the first permanent white settlers in what became Oshkosh in 1836. He helped his father operate Knaggs' Ferry and helped him build the first cabin. His grandparents were Chester P. and Betsey Shipley Gallup, who arrived shortly later in 1836. He wrote an article on their trip to this area which is located in the OPM information files, #671 Stanley Family. He married Elizabeth Barber on February 3, 1856 in Oshkosh. The couple had two sons and two daughters. He left Oshkosh circa 1863 in lived in South Dakota and later in Hermansville, MI where he died in 1905. He was the Guest of Honor during the Oshkosh Semicentennial in 1903.
Object ID	P2003.28.4
Object Name	Cabinet Card
People	Stanley, Henry A.
Place	Hermansville, MI
Print size	4.25" x 6.5"
Subjects	Pioneers Firsts Portrait photographs Male
Title	Henry A. Stanley
Year Range from	1895
Year range to	1899

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