Elizabeth Perkins Stanley was born in 1836, the daughter of John Stanley (1789-1844) and Elizabeth Hunt (1797-1893) of Salem, Massachusetts. Around 1861, she married Andrew Nichols (1837-1921), the son of Dr. Andrew Nichols (1797-1854) and Mary Holyoke Ward (1800-1879) of Danvers, Massachusetts. After attending public schools in Danvers, Andrew Nichols moved to Salem, Massachusetts, where he worked for the insolvency court and probate court. In the late 1850s, he purchased a farm in Danvers, Massachusetts, where he grew corn and potatoes; he later worked as a civil engineer. Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Nichols had eight children: Andrew, Elizabeth Hunt, John Holyoke, Joshua Ward, Mary Eliot, William Stanley, Nellie Chapman, and Margaret Appleton. Elizabeth Stanley Nichols died in 1939.
From the guide to the Elizabeth Stanley letters, Stanley, Elizabeth letters, 1851-1861, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
