Daniel Stanton (1789-1864)

He was born in Guilford, Connecticut. He became the leading merchant at New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, "a gentleman of fine personal appearance, and of much more than ordinary culture of mind, and one of the best conversers I ever knew. He left New Hartford for a larger sphere of activity, and became a partner in the great auction house of Shotwell, Fox & Co., New York City, and there acquired a handsome fortune. After this he took his family to Europe and spent several years there to gratify his refined tastes". On returning to the States, he acquired "a handsome summer residence" at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He married Julia, daughter of Frederick Stanley, "a pleasant and courtly gentleman of the old school (who owned) one of the most stately mansions ever built in New Hartford" at the corner of Genesee and South Streets. Mrs Stanton's stepmother, a sister of Seth Grosvenor, was nicknamed "the Duchess" for her "stately bearing and polished manners". After Daniel died his widow went to Paris where she lived for ten or twelve years and died. They were the parents of two daughters (listed).