businessman, lumberman, banker, b. Canandaigua, N.Y. He moved to Wisconsin in 1847, settling on a farm in Dane County. From 1853 to 1862 he operated a mercantile business in Baraboo, and from 1862 to 1869 was a partner in the mercantile firm of Stanley and Skinner in Chippewa Falls. In 1869 this firm became Stanley Brothers, with the purchase of Skinner's interest by Fred and Emory Stanley, and in 1876 L. C. Stanley retired from the business. He was mayor of Chippewa Falls (1881) and from 1882 until his death was president of the First National Bank of Chippewa Falls. In 1873, with T. C. Pound (q.v.) and W. P. Bartlett, Stanley was instrumental in building the first railroad into Chippewa Falls, the Chippewa Falls and Western, later part of the Wisconsin Central R.R., and in 1881, also with Bartlett, he platted the village of Stanley. Turning his lumber and real-estate interests to the West after 1888, Stanley purchased extensive timberlands in Oregon. Baraboo Republic, Sept. 28, 1909; Chippewa County (2 vols., Chicago, 1913).Learn More
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