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Excerpt from Theories Worth Having: And Other Papers Mr. Stanley left many writings in the form of essays, club papers, and editorial notes which are thought valuable by his family, as showing the qualities of a rare mind, and the philosophy of a busy and practical man. Although not in tended for publication, I have thought best to preserve a few selected from the club papers written for the Monday and Tuesday Literary Clubs of Newton, and they are herein repro duced for the pleasure and benefit of his family and friends. The year in which each article was written is indicated, as conditions seemed to require, ow ing to the rapid changes in world thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Francis was born on June 1, 1849 in Kingfield, Maine, United States, the son of Solomon and Apphia (French) Stanley. His father was a teacher and a farmer, a descendant of Matthew Stanley who emigrated from England to Lynn, Massachussets, about 1646.
Stanley attended public school in Kingfield and graduated in 1871 from the Farmington State Normal and Training School.
For a number of years he taught school in various towns in Maine; at the same time, having a talent for crayon portraiture, he built up a portrait business. In 1874 the demands of this work led him to give up teaching, and he removed to Lewiston, Maine, where he believed a larger opportunity lay. In the course of the succeeding nine years, which were successful ones, he added photography to his business and became one of the leading portrait photographers of New England.
In 1905, the brothers sold their business to the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York. Meanwhile Francis had become interested in steam automobiles, and early in 1897 began a series of experiments which resulted in the production by the brothers in that year of the first steam motor car to be successfully operated in New England. For this he designed a very efficient high-pressure steam boiler, light in weight and yet with ample storage capacity.
This he combined with a new design of light weight, reversing, two-cylinder steam engine, and produced a very successful steam automobile. Having organized a company to manufacture their machine, the brothers in 1898 began the construction of one hundred cars, all with standard parts, but before completing them they sold the entire business, including the patents, to John Brisben Walker of New York, who subsequently organized the Mobile Company of America and was interested in the establishment of the Locomobile Company of America.
In the last years of his life Francis Stanley was engaged in developing a "unit steam engine" to be applied to the running of individual steam cars on interurban railroad lines. With his brother he also invented a process for manufacturing illuminating gas from gasoline.
He died in 1918 in Wenham, Massachusetts when he drove his car into a woodpile while attempting to avoid farm wagons travelling side by side on the road.
Francis Edgar Stanley made his fortune in the manufacture of photographic plates but he is best remembered as the co-founder, along with his twin brother Francis Edgar Stanley, of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company which built the Stanley Steamer. Later, the Stanley brothers repurchased their original patents from the Locomobile Company and organized the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, with Francis as president, and continued to conduct the affairs of the company until their retirement in 1917. In 1906 the brothers built a steam car that set a world’s record that year for the fastest mile - 28. 2 seconds, corresponding to a speed of more than 127 miles (205 km) per hour.
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As an avocation he gave much attention to the theory and practical science of violin construction.
He married Augusta May Walker, daughter of William Walker of New Portland, Maine, on January 1, 1870, and at the time of his death, which occurred as the result of an automobile accident, was survived by his widow and three children.
