California Biographies
Stanley, John P.

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Stanley, John P. Was born in Jefferson county, Iowa, December 16, 1840. When
about twelve years of age, his parents emigrated to California, crossing the
plains with ox-teams, arriving in this county about the 20th of September, 1852.
After a residence of one year in Green valley township, they purchased a farm of
two hundred acres about five miles west of Petaluma. After residing in the
county about ten years, the subject of this sketch took up his abode in eastern
Oregon, and followed mining about three years, when he returned to this county
and rented the place where he now lives, but remained only one year, when he
went to Fort Ross and engaged in the wood business for one year, and then
returned and bought the farm he rented the year previous. Dairying is his
principal business. Married Mrs. Jane Shield, widow of Robert Shield, in the
year 1871. She has by her first husband three children: Frank, Agnes and Edwin.
One child by second marriage, Edith L.

Source: HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY, Alley, Bowen & Co. 1880