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Object Cabinet Card
Name
Henry A. Stanley
Description Albumen copy print on cabinet card stock of Henry A. Stanley.
Year Range 1895
from
Year range 1899
to
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 Augustus Stanley was born on a farm in Medina, Ohio September 21, 1828, the
eldest son of Webster and Sophia Gallup Stanley. He came with his father to Wisconsin in
1835 and they were the first permanent white settlers in what became Oshkosh. 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. 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
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