Editing Henry Stanbery (section)

==Early life==
Henry Stanbery was born in New York City on February 20, 1803, a son of Jonas Stanbery, a physician and land speculator, and his second wife Ann Lucy (McCready) Seaman Stanbery.<ref name="Bench">{{cite book |editor1-last=Reed |editor1-first= George Irving |date=1897 |title=Bench and Bar of Ohio |volume=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/benchbarofohioco01reed |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Century Publishing and Engraving Company |pages=[https://archive.org/details/benchbarofohioco01reed/page/n97 84]–87 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Lytle |first=James R. |date=1908 |title=20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio and Representative Citizens |url=https://archive.org/details/20thcenturyhisto00lytl |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Biographical Publishing Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/20thcenturyhisto00lytl/page/586 586] |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>  The family moved to [[Zanesville, Ohio]], in 1814, and Stanbery revealed himself to be a precocious student while attending a special private school.<ref name="Bench"/>  At age 12, he began attendance at Washington College in [[Washington, Pennsylvania]] (now [[Washington and Jefferson College]]), where he was a member of the [[Literary societies at Washington & Jefferson College#Union Literary Society|Union Literary Society]].<ref>{{Cite book| last = McClelland| first = W. C.|chapter= A History of Literary Societies at Washington & Jefferson College|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1QyAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111 | publisher = George H. Buchanan and Company|title=The Centennial Celebration of the Chartering of Jefferson College in 1802| year= 1903 | location = Philadelphia| pages = 111–132| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=t1QyAAAAYAAJ}}</ref>