Stanley, Charles T

Stanley, Charles T.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Cazenovia, N.Y., May 22, 1810. In early youth he was blessed with pious parental training, was converted in his twentieth year, received on trial by the Oneida Conference in 1835, and after traveling four years, in which he was appointed successively to the Cayuga, Bridgewater, Brooklyn, and Canaan circuits, where he labored with marked success, his health failed, and he died Jan. 17, 1841. As a Christian, he exemplified the principles of the Gospel; as a scholar, he cultivated a thirst for knowledge; as a minister, he was faithful to every duty. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 3, 238.