Stone, Charles W
agriculturist, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born June 29, 1843, in Groton, Mass.
He was appointed county superintendent of schools of Warren county, Pa., in 1865; was a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1870-71; and was a member of the Pennsylvania senate 1877-78. He was lieutenant-governor that state from 1879 to 1883; and was appointed secretary of the commonwealth in 1887. He was elected to the fifty-first congress to fill a vacancy; and was elected to the fifty-second congress. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican.