Edward Stanwood

Edward Stanwood Sr. (September 16, 1841 – October 11, 1923) was a writer, journalist, historian, and editor from Maine.

He was born to Daniel Caldwell Stanwood (1811–1863) and Mary Augusta Webster Stanwood in Augusta, Maine. His father was a bookseller, militia member, city clerk, and state legislator. His father was a state representative in 1856.

Joseph Homan Manley was his classmate. Edward Stanwood lived in what became known as the Edward Stanwood House on High Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Completed in 1879, the Queen Anne architecture style home was designed by Boston architect Clarence Sumner Luce. Thomas Dewing worked on the interior design.

He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1861. Bolton's "Memoir of Edward Stanwood" was published in 1924.

He spent summers on Squirrel Island. He served as Senior Editor of Youth's Companion, a magazine for children. He served as secretary and treasurer of the Arkwright Club. He was a trustee of the Brookline library and served as an overseer of Bowdoin College and as a member of its board of trustees. American tariff controversies in the nineteenth century (1904) A History of the Presidency from 1897 to 1909 A History of Presidential Elections James Gillespie Blaine in the American Statesman series