Barack’s mother was given the name Stanley because her father, Stanley Dunham, had expected a boy and refused to give up on the name when she turned out to be a girl. She went by the name Stanley through grade school and high school and only began to introduce herself as Ann when she entered college. Stanley Ann Dunham’s great-great grandfather, Jacob Dunham, had been a farmer in Tipton County, Indiana in the 1870s. He later owned restaurants and a confectionary in the Oklahoma Territory. Her father, at the age of nine, discovered his mother’s body after she had committed...