| Name |
Stansbury, Emory |
| Suffix |
M. D. |
| Birth |
28 Aug 1839 |
Baltimore, Baltimore (City), Maryland, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
 Military Service |
Bef 1866 |
| Civil War |
| Biography |
1877 |
| The US Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Wisconsin Volume |
- The subject of this sketch, a native of Maryland, was born in the city of Baltimore, August 29, 1839, and is the son of Daniel and Gertrude R. (Milliman) Stansbury. His father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and removed to Wisconsin in 1850, holding his first pastorate at Sheboygan. He was subsequently stationed at Portage, Janesville and other points, and at the time of his death, in October, 1860, was presiding elder of the Janesville district. During this last named year Emory graduated from the high school at Janesville, and in the following winter taught a district school.
In August, 1861, he entered the army in the capacity of a hospital steward, and after thirteen months of service, spent mostly in hospitals at St. Louis and Bloomfield, he was discharged on account of disability. That autumn he resumed the study of medicine, which he had begun shortly before the opening of the rebellion, with Dr. A. M. Dodson, of Berlin, Wisconsin. He attended lectures at the Long Island Medical College, Brooklyn, and afterward returned to Berlin and practiced two years with his preceptor. He then attended a course of lectures at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and received his diploma March 1, 1867.
Dr. Stansbury practiced a short time in Berlin and Winneconne, and in February 1868, settled in Appleton, his present home. There he has built up a wide and remunerative practice, and stands among the leading physicians of Outagamie County. He is a constant reader, a rapidly growing man, and a member of the State Medical Society, with few peers in the State under forty years of age.
Dr. Stansbury is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and president of the board of trustees of that body in Appleton. He is a Freemason, but finds but little time, aside from his professional duties, to attend to the claims of the Order. He votes the republican ticket, but is not strongly partisan.
On the 13th of June 1872, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary A. P. Humphrey nee Phinney. She has a son by her former and a daughter by her present husband. Mrs. Stansbury is a graduate of Lawrence University, and has received, in course, the degree of A.M.
In stature Dr. Stansbury is nearly six feet tall, weighs two hundred and ten pounds, and is solid, without being corpulent. He has bluish-gray eyes, a ruddy complexion, an open, frank expression of countenance, and an appearance of good living, good cheer, and perfect freedom from the ills to which flesh is heir.
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| Death |
3 Apr 1899 |
Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
| Burial |
Aft 3 Apr 1899 |
Riverside Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA |
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Stansbury, Emory
Outagamie County Veterans' Grave Registration List |
| Biography |
1911 |
| History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0952 |
- EMORY STANSBURY, M. D., deceased, for many years was a prominent physician of Appleton, Wisconsin, where he was professionally trusted and honored and personally held in the highest esteem. He was born at Baltimore, Maryland, August 28, 1839, and died at his home in Appleton, April 3, 1899, a son of Rev. Daniel and Gertrude (Milemon) Stansbury. His parents came to Wisconsin in 1851, where his father was a pioneer Methodist preacher. Of the ten children of the family, Emory was the sixth in order of birth. The father died at Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1860, at that time being the presiding elder of the Janesville district. In the same year Emory Stansbury graduated from the Janesville High School, after which, for some months, he taught school and began the study of medicine. His studies were interrupted, however, by the outbreak of war in the following year, and in 1861 he enlisted in the First Wisconsin Cavalry and after a time was appointed hospital steward, in which capacity he served for thirteen months, when he was discharged on account of disability. He then devoted himself to his medical studies under the supervision of Dr. N. M. Dodson, of Berlin, and subsequently was graduated at the Long Island Medical College, in Brooklyn, and still later at the Bellevue Medical College, in New York. Returning to Wisconsin he practised prior to 1868, at Berlin and Winneconne, when he located permanently at Appleton, where the remainder of a busy, useful and beneficent life was spent. For many years preceding his death he was a prominent member of the boards of trustees of the Methodist Church and Lawrence University. He was a member of the county, state and American Medical Associations, and at different times served on charitable committees and benevolent boards. In his last illness, which he knew to be a fatal one, he set an example of patience and courage which was as admirable as it was remarkable. His chief care seemed to be for his family, their grief distressing him more than his sufferings. His death was made the occasion of numerous memorials and newspaper articles, among these being a glowing tribute to his worth as physician, man and citizen which was written by Dr. J. T. Reeve and read at the annual meeting of the Fox River Valley Medical Society and placed on record. Dr. Stansbury belonged to the Masonic fraternity. On June 13, 1872, Dr. Stansbury was married to Mrs. Mary A. P. Humphrey, a daughter of Samuel C. and Lorian (Sheldon) Phinney. They were natives of New York and came to Wisconsin in 1853, the father of Mrs. Stansbury being a retired minister. Stansbury has one sister, Mrs. W. D. Mason, who is a resident also of Appleton. To Dr. and Mrs. Stansbury three children were born, namely: Clara, who is a graduate of Lawrence College, is a teacher in the Appleton High School and resides with her mother; Karl Emory and George Jay, both graduates of Lawrence College, connected with the Thilmany Paper and Pulp Company of Kaukauna, and reside at home.
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Stansbury, Emory
Biography |
| Reference Number |
56 |
| Person ID |
I316804 |
1FamilyTree |
| Last Modified |
2 Sep 2018 |
1839 - 1899 (59 years)
