Family tree of Owsley STANLEY
Singer & Musician, Chemist
Born Augustus Owsley STANLEY
American audio engineer and clandestine chemist, key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement
Born on January 19, 1935 in Washington, D.C. , United States
Died on March 12, 2011 in Queensland , Australia
Family tree
Report an error
More information
At an early age, he committed himself to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Without having graduated high school, he studied engineering at the University of Virginia for a year, maintaining a 3.4 grade point average with minimal effort before dropping out due to his disinclination for slide rules and mechanical drawing.
... Stanley was the son of a political family from Kentucky. His father was a government attorney. His grandfather, A. Owsley Stanley, a member of the United States Senate after serving as Governor of Kentucky and in the U.S. House of Representatives, campaigned against Prohibition in the 1920s.
At an early age, he committed himself to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Without having graduated high school, he studied engineering at the University of Virginia for a year, maintaining a 3.4 grade point average with minimal effort before dropping out due to his disinclination for slide rules and mechanical drawing.
© Copyright Wikipédia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
Geographical origins
The map below shows the places where the ancestors of the famous person lived.
