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Stanley, Henry Morton
Explorer; born near Denbigh, Wales, in 1840.
His original name was John Rawlands.
For ten years he was in the poor-house of St. Asaph, where he received a good education, and left it at the age of thirteen, became teacher of a school, and finally shipped at Liverpool as a cabin-boy for New Orleans.
There he found employment with a merchant named Stanley, who adopted him and gave him his name.
Enlisting in the Confederate army at the
Henry Morton Stanley. beginning of the Civil War, he was made prisoner, and entered the United States navy as a volunteer.
After the war he travelled in Turkey and Asia Minor, and visited Wales.
At the poor-house of St. Asaph he gave a dinner to the children, and told them that what success he had attained in life he owed to the education received there.
Returning to the United States, he was engaged in 1868, by the proprietor of the New York Herald to accompany the British expedition to Abyssinia, as correspondent.
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