WARE COUNTY  GA  Biography   Valentine Legare Stanton

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Valentine Legare Stanton, brother of Georgia's poet
laureate, Frank L. Stanton, was born at Charleston, S.
C., May 26, 1859. His parents were named Valentine and
Catherine R. His mother was the daughter of Peter and
Harriett Emily Parry. His father was a typographer at one
time; was in the Confederate service; was a prominent
member of Solomon's Lodge, F. & A. M., of Savannah, Ga.,
and was buried there. His grandfather was George Henry
Stanton, of New York, who settled in Baracoa, Cuba, and
there married Nicholas Prieutzer, daughter of Nicholas
Prieutzer, who was killed at the battle of Dresden,
August 26th, 1813, while serving under Napoleon
Bonaparte.

Mr. Stanton was educated at Arclers' High School,
Charleston, and commenced his business career at
Orangeburg, S. C., in the service of the South Carolina
Railway, and was sent to Waycross from there by the
Western Union Telegraph Company to inaugurate the
repeater system between Cuba and New York.

He has had many offers of positions away from Waycross,
since he has lived here, but he was assured of the
wonderful growth and bright future for the city of his
adoption and he has remained among us and right glad we
are of it, too, for he is one of our best citizens.

Subject of this sketch is now manager for The State Life
Insurance Company of Indianapolis, Ind., and for South
Georgia; is Superintendent of the First Methodist Church
Sunday School and has been for the past twenty years; he
takes a marked interest in church and educational work
and has been on the Waycross School Board for seven years
and was re-elected for a long term at the last election;
is a well known reformer and temperance advocate and has
been a member of the executive committee of the Chamber
of Commerce.

He owns his place of residence at 26 Gilmore Street,
corner Gilmore and Drane Streets and a farm of 75 acres,
with about 30 acres under cultivation, one and one half
miles south of the A. C. L. passenger depot, where he has
raised the past year Egyptian cotton that he sold for 18
1-2 cents a pound and he says the soil on the flatlands
is especially adapted for cotton, and will, in fact,
raise any kind of crop that cen be produced in a semi-
tropic or temperate zone

Mr. Stanton went with the State Life Insurance Company of
Indianapolis after investigating them through Bradstreet
and Dun, before signing a contract with them ten years
ago and being satisfied with the absolute safety and
integrity of the company he accepted their service; one
of the strongest points that influenced him being the
large dividends to policy holders that the company paid
and the compulsory law which required the deposit of the
net cash value of each policy to be deposited with the
State of Indiana and certified to the State of Georgia's
Comptroller General. Our friend's only hobby is that of
the homing pigeon fancier. He has a strain of birds that
have made a record to Washington, D. C., from Waycross of
1489 yards a minute. He has a loft of fifty birds and is
a member of the National Federation of American Homing
Pigeon Fanciers. Mr. Stanton is also a Past Chancellor
Commander of the local order of Pythian Knights.

Mr. V. L. Stanton married Miss Maggie C., daughter of
Richard and Margaret Clarke, of Philadelphia. Their
children are Cecil V., Mary M., Kate, Margaret, Frances,
Walter H., and Valentine, Jr.

Ref: INDUSTRIAL EDITION OF THE WAYCROSS EVENING HERALD, Waycross, Georgia, June 1907, p. 60.
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