HENRY B. STANTON. Thadeus Stanton was born February 10, 1817, in Wheeling, Va., and when a small boy came to this county, making his first home here near Ten-Mile village. In Washington he learned the harness making trade, serving an apprenticeship of five years with Jacob Shafer. He then moved to Hillsborough, same State, where he resided several years, and, returning to Washington, continued the saddlery and harness business until 1850, in which year he took the census of the county. In 1852 he ran for treasurer, but was defeated; nothing daunted, however, he ran again at the next election, and was elected for one term on the Old-line Whig ticket; later he became a Democrat. At the close of his term as treasurer he resumed his trade, and continued it almost up to the time of his death; he died of dropsy April 5, 1873, at the age of fifty-five years. On July 8, 1841, he was married by Rev. George S. Holmes, in Washington, to Miss Jane Ann, daughter of Joseph Mahaffey, who came from County Down, Ireland, to Washington county, where he died at the advanced age of eighty-two years. His wife, Jane Ann (Patterson), followed him to the grave at the age of seventy-three years; they had a large family of children, three of whom are yet living: Mrs. Stanton, and Mrs. McConahey (widow of John), in Washington, and Joseph, in Harshaville, Beaver Co., Penn. The children born to Thadeus and Jane Ann (Mahaffey) Stanton were seven in number, viz.: Susan, Letitia, Elizabeth and Sarah Agnes (all four deceased), Henry B. and J. A., in Washington county, and J. C., in Canton, Ohio. The widowed mother, after the death of the father, made her home with her son, Henry, in Washington, until her death April 5, 1893, in the seventy-fourth year of her age. Henry B. Stanton, whose name opens this sketch, was born October 2, 1845, in Washington, Washington Co., Penn., his education being received at the public schools of the borough. In 1861 he commenced to learn the trade of saddle and harness maker with his father, remaining with him till the latter's death, except a few years he was working for others. In 1875 he opened out in the same line of business for his own account, and has since successfully carried it on, doing a large trade and enjoying a wide patronage. On November 4, 1875, Mr. Stanton was married to Miss Catharine, daughter of Daniel Liggett, of this county. Politically, our subject is a Democrat, but has no time to aspire to office, his business demanding and receiving all his attention.

Text taken from page 320 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed February 1998 by Kathy Lininger of Celina, OH as part of the Beers Project. Published February 1998 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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