Stanley, Henry Morton

Life Span
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    Full name
    Henry Morton Stanley
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    0
    Family
    Elizabeth Parry (mother), Dorothy Tennant (wife, 1890)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Journalist
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Explorer
    Military
    Union Army
    Union Navy
    Confederate Army

    Henry Morton Stanley (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    In October 1869 Stanley was summoned to Paris by James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the [New York] Herald, who instructed him to find David Livingstone, the famous African missionary believed to be lost in central Africa, but he was to begin the search only after completing a series of assignments in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and India. It was March 1871 before he left Zanzibar with a large expedition bound for Tanganyika (the two countries now form Tanzania) in East Africa. After suffering great hardships and surmounting obstacles and dangers, he found Livingstone at Ujiji. Raising his hat, he asked politely, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" (How I Found Livingstone, p. 78).

    Together they explored the north end of Lake Tanganyika before Stanley emerged from the interior carrying letters and notebooks from the missionary, who had no wish to leave. His newspaper stories and his book, How I Found Livingstone (1872), brought him fame.
    Byron Farwell, "Stanley, Henry Morton," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-00982.html.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    McLynn, Frank. Stanley: Sorcerer's Apprentice. London: Constable, 1991. view record
    McLynn, Frank. Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer. Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House, 1990. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Stanley, Henry Morton," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6627.