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ISAAC N. STANLEY, who is a native of Wayne County, Indiana, was born May 15, 1848, his parents being Levi and Susannah (Butler) Stanley, the former of whom, reared to agriculture, but acquiring an education above the average in his youth, engaged I the profession of teaching. Levi Stanley was born in Miami County, Ohio, July 13, 1814, to Aaron and Mary (Cuppy) Stanley, who were natives of North Carolina. Mrs. Susannah Stanley was a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Davenport) Butler, her birth occurring May 20, 1818. She became the wife of Levi Stanley in 1836, their marriage taking place in Wayne County, Indiana. Eleven children were born to them, viz: Thomas, Mary E., deceased; William H., deceased; Rebecca (Mrs. Frank Campbell), Jesse B., Isaac N., Abraham C., Anna E. (Mrs. Webster Church), Mary E. (Mrs. Charles Druly), Susan E. (Mrs. Thomas Smelser), and Levi E. Stanley. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Stanley located in Wayne County, Indiana, where, for two years he secured employment in a sawmill, subsequently purchasing forty acres of land, to the cultivation of which he gave his personal attention, later increasing his possessions by 133 acres, which he successfully farmed until his death, in 1891, three years prior to which time his wife preceded him to their immortal home, both being interred in Boston Cemetery. IN politics he was a republican, and both found Christian fellowship in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which they were members.

Isaac N. was the sixth child, and his youth, like that of his father, was passed in a farm home, where, having the hunger for knowledge bore in him, he acquired the rudiments of an education, later expanded by wisely chosen and well taught courses of study in the Richmond High School at Earlham College, to which were due the success of his subsequent tutorage in the common schools of the county. His marriage was solemnized November 6, 1878, the bride being the daughter of Levi and Mary (Meyers) Jessup - her name Gulielma - and the date of her birth, January 23, 1849, Wayne, Indiana, being her native county. Mrs. Gulielma Stanley is a lady of refinement and possesses a superior education, having been a successful teacher. Their union has been blessed with four sons and two daughters, viz: Levi, Isaac, Marianna, William H., Clinton F., Grace R., none of whom have gone out from the parental home. Prior to his marriage Mr. Stanley purchased eighty acres of land in Randolph County, where they have since resided, and where he does a lucrative general farming business. Both he and his estimable wife are members of the Society of Friends, attending meetings at Cherry Grove. Mr. Stanley supports the Prohibition Party by his vote, believing that a more effectual means of creating public sentiment requisite to the branding of the liquor traffic with a legal "Thou Shall Not" than prayer alone.


Source:
Portrait & Biographical Record
Randolph County, Indiana; 1894
by A. W. Bowen & Co.

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