Stephen Stanley

Stephen Stanley was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to life. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: did not register; was “shanghaied from prison”; interviewed by Bd. on July 24, 1918 at Meade; Grunzig reported: “not interviewed by Bd. but going to Camp Meade on Aug. 11, 1918”; classified first as a 3; charged with disobedience of orders and with being AWOL; …