Elijah Stansbury Jr.

Elijah Stansbury Jr. was born in May 1791, in the manor of "McGaw's Mills", Baltimore County, Maryland to Elijah Stansbury Sr. He learned the trade of bricklayer. At the age of fifteen, Stansbury organized a company of forty-seven boys. He was elected as captain and Edward Rutledge was first lieutenant.[1][2]

Stansbury was considered not fit for military service, but volunteered in 1812. He enlisted as a private in the Baltimore Union Artillery under Captain John Montgomery. He took part in the Battle of North Point in September 1814. He was commissioned lieutenant and steadily rose to command a regiment.[1][2]

After the war Stansbury continued the bricklayer business. Shortly after 1817, Stansbury entered the building supply business.[1][2] He joined with G. Myers and Dr. Thomson to form a firm to sell botanical medicine called Thomsonian Medicine. He continued this business until 1862.[2]

Stansbury was a Democrat. On October 24, 1824, Stansbury was elected to the First Branch of the Baltimore City Council, representing the Fourth Ward, and served multiple terms from 1825 to 1832. He was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates on October 4, 1843; serving from 1843 to 1845.[1][3][4] Stansbury served as Mayor of Baltimore from 1848 to 1850.[5]

Stansbury married Eliza Eckel, daughter of Philip P. Eckel, of Baltimore in 1817.[1][2]

Stansbury died on December 19, 1883.[1] He was buried at Baltimore National Cemetery.[6]