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• Birth	20 Aug 1840	No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I40438	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	09 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Amos STANTON, b. 22 Jul 1804, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Triphena BROWN, b. 1 Sep 1802, No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F17176	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Mary E. LEWIS, b. 23 Feb 1843, Mystic,New London,Connecticut
  Married	29 Jun 1862	No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Children	1. Jennie Billings STANTON, b. 20 Nov 1869, No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut   2. Lewis STANTON, b. 5 Jan 1880, Westerly,Washington Co.,Rhode Island
  Family ID	F17853	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Mary E. CONGDON
  Married	28 Nov 1889	Oaklawn,Rhode Island
  Family ID	F17854	Group Sheet

• Notes

  THE BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol. 1, Boston, The Everett Press Company 1907, byCyrus Henry Brown, page 150. His boyhood was spent in his native town, where he attended thepublic and private schools. After living a short time in Stonington andPutnam, Conn., from the later place he was reported dead (having beencritically ill). An obituary notice of great length and fulsome praisewas published in the local papers, a copy of which is kept for the truefinale. He entered the army in August, 1862, as Sergeant of Co. G. 21stConn. Vol.; was afterwards promoted to 1st Lieutenant in the sameregiment, and served until the close of the war on the staff of GeneralCharles Devens, at the Headquarters of the 3d Division of the 24th A.C.,as Acting Engineer, officer, and Chief of Pioneers. He was among the first to enter the Confederate Capitol on themorning of the third of April 1865, and the first officer, not aprisoner, to enter Libby Prison. He became a pensioner for disabilitiesreceived during the war; but not until over twenty years after its closewould he make application, and then only on account of increasinginfirmities. Nearly his whole life has been spent in his present occupation,contracting painter, during which time he has exceuted many of thelargest jobs between New Haven, Conn., and Providence, RI, including thedecorating of the interior of many public buildings and privateresidences. He feels his greatest satisfaction in having lived toperpetuate to this generation, by a short period of service in the army,the patriotism of his grant-grandfather John Stanton, who was born inStonington, Conn, May 13, 1739, and at his death bore the markes ofseventeen bullet-wounds, received in the French and Indian War and thewar of the American Revolution. THE MAIN TREE II, Second Edition, by Nancy (Portor) Childress, 1995. page190.