William Leonard Stanley (1905)

Born 20 Jul 1905 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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William Stanley was a Massachusettsan.

William Leonard Stanley was born on July 20, 1905, in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, to William Stanley (born in Bar Harbor and worked as a fireman) and Gertrude Meagher Stanley (born in Boston) ^[1].

In 1910, William L. (age 4), lived on Lamanche Street, in Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, with his father William B. (age 30 - worked as a station agent for a steam railroad), his mother Gertrude A. (age 26) and his brother Clarence R. (age 1 - born in Massachusetts)^[2].

In 1920, William L. (age 14), lived at 39 Sturgis Street, in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with his father William B. (age 39 - worked as a stationary engineer at Chemical Works), his mother Gertrude A. (age 35), his brother Clarence R. (age 11 - born in Massachusetts), his brother Elmer A. (age 9 - born in Massachusetts) and his brother Leslie F. (age 7 - born in Massachusetts)^[3].

In 1930, William (age 24 - worked as a yard brakeman in a steam railroad), lived at 12 Lawrence Street, in Woburn, with his father William (age 50 - worked as a crane operator at a construction company), his mother Gertrude (age 46), his brother Elmer (age 19 - worked as a laborer at a chemical factory), his brother Leslie (age 17 - worked as a tinsmith for automobile bodies) and his sister Mary (age 8 - born in Massachusetts)^[4].

On October 16, 1940, William Leonard Stanley (age 35 - described as 5' 9" tall, blue eyes, 225 lbs., black hair and a light complexion and worked for Monsanto Chemical Company, in Everett Station, Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts), registered for World War II, in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts^[5].

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1697288:5062?tid=&pid=&queryId=18f97fbb9cb8d954540ba5306dd61e9a&_phsrc=OrE293&_phstart=successSource Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Birth Records, 1840-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
2. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/109555648:7884?tid=&pid=&queryId=18f97fbb9cb8d954540ba5306dd61e9a&_phsrc=OrE297&_phstart=successSource Year: 1910; Census Place: Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_581; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 0280; FHL microfilm: 1374594
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/17048335:6061?tid=&pid=&queryId=18f97fbb9cb8d954540ba5306dd61e9a&_phsrc=OrE295&_phstart=successSource Year: 1920; Census Place: Woburn Ward 1, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_720; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 535
4. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/15460350:6224?tid=&pid=&queryId=18f97fbb9cb8d954540ba5306dd61e9a&_phsrc=OrE299&_phstart=successSource Year: 1930; Census Place: Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 0544; FHL microfilm: 2340666
5. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/195462026:2238?tid=&pid=&queryId=18f97fbb9cb8d954540ba5306dd61e9a&_phsrc=OrE301&_phstart=successSource National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Draft Registration Cards for Massachusetts, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 924