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Stone, William Leete

journalist, author, was born April 20, 1792, in New Paltz, N. Y. He was a journalist of prominence in New York city, and the first superintendent of public schools there. He was the author of History of the Albany Constitutional Convention of 1821; Tales and Sketches; Matthias and his Impostures; Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; Ups and Downs of a Distressed Gentleman, a social satire; Letters on Animal Magnetism; Poetry and History of Wyoming; Lives of Brant, Red Jacket; and Letters on Masonry. He died Aug. 15, 1844, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.