Alameda County Biographies

GEORGE C. STANLEY

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson  August 2004

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	GEORGE C. STANLEY, a prominent citizen of Livermore, was born November 15, 1839, in 
Randolph, Vermont, where he was educated and learned the trade of wood-turning.  In 1860 he 
came to California by way of Panama, landing in San Francisco.  For the first year he was 
engaged in various occupations, and then he went to the Cariboo country and followed mining 
about a year.  Then he came to Centerville, this State, and engaged in teaming over the Sierra 
Nevada mountains for a period of three years; next he followed ranching for a short time near 
San Jose; then he located at Pleasanton for three years, in the same business; and finally, 
selling out that place he went to Livermore and purchased another farm, which he still occupies.  
He also deals in real estate, and has been engaged in general mercantile business.  He is a 
member of Vesper Lodge, No. 62, A.O.U.W., at Livermore.
	In November, 1870, in Livermore, he married Nellie Patterson, who died leaving one child.  
Mr. Stanley, October 20, 1879 married Miss Emma Reed, and they have two children:  George R. and 
Leland.

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co., 1891