When Edward Mills Stanley was born on 12 July 1849, in Clinton, Summit, Ohio, United States, his father, Edward Amaziah Stanley, was 43 and his mother, Abigail Talcott Hooker, was 40. He married Harriett Emily Comstock on 15 April 1880, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Clinton, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Clinton Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1860. He died on 24 March 1907, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 57.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
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