Edgar Williams Stanton (1850 - 1920)

Born 3 Oct 1850 in Waymart, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Julia Ann (Wentch) Stanton — married 1899 in Traer, Tama, Iowa, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Sep 1920 at age 69 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, United States

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Biography

Edgar W. Stanton was born in Pennsylvania in 1850. He had a life-long connection with Iowa State University, serving as interim president four times. He was a victim of the "Spanish Influenza" epidemic, dying in New York in 1920. Stanton House, one of the residential subdivisions of Friley Hall, is located on the Iowa State University campus. The Stanton Memorial Carillon is named after Stanton.

There is no apparent connection with the town name of Stanton, Iowa, and Edgar.

An extensive set of family connections may be found within FindAGrave.

Research Notes

• A 1903 article about the Sons of the American Revolution appears to list Edgar W. Stanton as a "prominent member." However, in 2020, there was no entry in the SAR under "Members" or "Descendants." As the Descendants database is incomplete, future searching may be more productive. (Newspaper article available in Images). Sons of the Revolution is probably a different group than Sons of the American Revolution. (added Jan 2022)

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 07 October 2019), memorial page for Dr Edgar Williams Stanton, Sr (3 Oct 1850–12 Sep 1920), Find A Grave Memorial no. 71442507, citing Iowa State University Cemetery, Ames, Story County, Iowa, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8).

• In memoriam, Edgar Williams Stanton, eighteen hundred and fifty, nineteen hundred and twenty, by Iowa State College (Iowa City, Iowa: Clio Press, 1921). This 100-plus page book includes a little bit of his family story, a little bit about his growing up, quite a few memories of people who knew "Dean Stanton," and the text of two of his addresses at Iowa State College.

The full text of this source is freely available from The Internet Archive (archive.org); accessed 10 September 2021.