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Stone, Joseph C

soldier, physician, congressman, was born July 30, 1829, in Westport, N. Y. He enlisted as a private in the first Iowa cavalry in 1861, and became an assistant adjutant-general, serving until the close of the war. He resumed the practice of medicine after the war in Burlington, Iowa; and was elected a representative from Iowa to the fortyfifth congress.

Stone, Lucy

reformer, was born in 1818. In 1847 she graduated from Oberlin college, and the same year began the modern woman's rights movement by a series of lectures, beginning with one given in her brother's church in Gardner, Mass. In 1858 she married for her second husband Mr. Henry B. Blackwell of Boston, Mass. She died Oct. 18, 1893.

Stone, Melville Elijah

journalist, was born Aug. 15, 1848, in Hudson, Ill. He published the first number of The Daily News on Christmas day of 1875, in Chicago, Ill. This publication, under his able management, has become one of the foremost newspapers in America. He is also connected with a banking institution and other corporations of Chicago.

Stone, Michael Jenifer

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born about 1750 in Charles county, Md. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1789 to 1791. He was subsequently for many years judge of the Charles county court. He died in 1812 in Charles county, Md.

Stone, Ormond

astronomer, educator, author, was born Jan. 11, 1847, in Pekin, Ill. In 1882 he was called to the chair of practical astronomy in the university of Virginia, with care of the Leander McCormick observatory. Since 1883 he has edited The Annals of Mathematics at the university of Virginia.

Stone, R. Foster

clergyman, lecturer, was born in Bedford. He has lectured extensively in the principal states of the union, under the auspices of the I.

O. G. T., W. C. T. U., and ministerial associations. He is a prominent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and fills a pastorate in Mendota, Mo.

Stone, Thomas

signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1743 in Charles county, Md. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1775 to 1779, and in 1784 and 1785. He was a signer of the declaration of independence; and in 1778 was chosen to the Maryland legislature. He died Oct. 5, 1787, in Alexandria, Va.

Stone, Thomas Treadwell

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 9, 1801, in Waterford, Maine. He was a unitarian clergyman of Bolton, Mass.; and the author of Sermons on War; Sermons; The Rod and Staff; and Sketches of Oxford County, Maine. He died in 1895.

Stone, Warren

physician, was born in February, 1808, in St. Albans, Vt. He began teaching anatomy in 1836, in 1837 was appointed professor of that branch in the university of Louisiana, and afterward accepted the chair of surgery, which he held till his death. He died Dec. 6, 1872, in Baton Rouge, La.

Stone, Warren

soldier, physician, was born in 1843 in New Orleans, La. In 1873 he made what is thought to be the first recorded cure of traumatic aneurism of the subclavian artery by digital pressure. He gave his services to the people of Brunswick, Ga., during the prevalence of yellow fever in 1874 and in 1878. He died Jan. 3, 1883, in New Orleans, La.

Stone, William

governor, was born in 1603 in England. In 1648 he was appointed governor of Maryland, and served until 1653. He died about 1695 in Charles county, Md.