BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 511.


HENRY STANTON is a descendant of an illustrious family. The eminent lawyer, 
citizen and statesman, E. M. Stanton, secretary of war during the trying 
days of the war of the rebellion, was his cousin. Edmond and Sarah (Hoyle) 
Stanton were his parents. The former was a native of Belmont county, Ohio. 
His great-grandmother migrated from North Carolina with her family of five 
sons about the year 1804 or 1805, her wagon being the first to cross the 
Ohio river at Portland, above Wheeling, W. Va., and the first that came 
over that route to Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Henry Stanton's father, who was a 
farmer, was married about the year 1842, and was the father of six 
children, who were: Nathan, died in infancy; Rebecca, wife of Robert Smith, 
lived in Jefferson county; Tabitha, who is the wife of John F. Davis, now 
living in Philadelphia; Henry; Benjamin, who lives near Barnesville; and 
Daniel, also living in the vicinity of Barnesville. The father died in 
1851, and the mother in 1884. Henry was reared by his stepfather, Ezekiel 
Bundy, on a farm, his father dying when he was but four years old. He 
received the average education given in the common schools, and attended 
the Friends seminary at Mount Pleasant for two winters, afterward learning 
the machinist's trade, at which he worked for three or four years, at the 
expiration of which time he purchased an interest in the Davis-Stanton 
Planing Mill Company, of Barnesville, being connected with this company for 
four years. He then went into the coal business in Barnesville, and in 1879 
moved to Flushing, where he has since been engaged in the milling business 
with Charles Stratton, having by honesty and fair dealing built up a 
profitable business. March 8, 1871, he married Miss Mary Bailey, daughter 
of Hezekiah Bailey, of Belmont county. One child, which died in infancy, is 
the result of this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton are members of the 
Wilberite branch of the Society of Friends.