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NAME STONE 1110 STONE a career of three or four years this rather pretentious publication was, for some reason, discontinued. He did not again enter the field of medical journalism until 1886 when he became editor and proprietor of The North- western Lancet, which continued under his guidance and management until IS^l. He loved to teach, and was a fluent speaker, with ability to impart knowledge in an inter- esting and impressive manner. He was the pioneer of medical teaching in the Northwest, having organized the St. Paul Medical School, preparatory, in 1871. It was intended by this preliminary course, merely to supplement the instruction given by preceptors in those days. The success of this undertaking led to the establishment of the St. Paul Medical College in 1879 where a full course of medicine was offered. From this time on he was identified with practically every venture in medical teaching in the Twin Cities up to the estab- lishment of the College of Medicine of the University in 1888. In this school he ably filled the chair of diseases of women from its organization to the time of his death, on July 16, 1910. He served as president of the State Medical Association, the Association of Medical Edi- tors, the Association of Military Surgeons, and as vice-president of the American Medical -Association. In 1887 the Iowa State Univer- sity conferred upon him her LL. D. At the time of his death he was surgeon-general of the State of Minnesota, and with dignity filled that position. He was also much interested in matters of public health. In 1895 he was appointed Com- missioner of Health of the city of St. Paul, and under his administration was established and organized the public bacteriological lab- oratory. John L. Rothrock. St. Paul Med. .Tour., 1910, vol. xii. Stone, Richard French (1844-1913) R. French Stone, editor and compiler of "Eminent American Physicians and Sur- geons," died at his office in Indianapolis. October 3, 1913. The son of Samuel Stone, he was born near Sharpsburg, Kentucky, April 1, 1844, of English and Scotch-Irish lineage, his paternal ancestors having been pioneers in Virginia and Kentucky. His grandfather was a man of powerful physique, an associate of Daniel Boone and his grand- mother, a daughter of Judge Richard French, a Kentucky orator. Young Stone grew up on his father's farm, attended the local schools and studied medi- cine under Dr. J. B. Cross, finally entering Rush Medical College at Chicago in 1863. He soon left, however, to act as hospital dresser and ambulance attendant in the Union Army. In 1864-S while serving in the medical de- partment of the Army, he had an opportunity to attend courses of medical lectures in Phil- adelphia and received his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania during the cen- tennial anniversary of its foundation. March 11, 1865. when he lacked a few days of being twenty-one years of age. Following his graduation, Dr. Stone served as acting assistant surgeon in the army, helped care for a severe epidemic of yellow fever in Florida, had charge of a post hospital at Monticello and was released from duty at his own request in 1866, settling in practice at New Albany, Indiana, in 1867. Here he stayed until 1880, when he removed to Indian- apolis to assist in the founding of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Indian- apolis, becoming professor of materia medica, therapeutics and clinical medicine in that insti- tution. Soon he became a member of the consulting and clinical staff of the Indian- apolis City Hospital and City Dispensary and this position, as well as membership on the board of medical examiners for physicians seeking positions at these institutions, he held until his death. From 1883 until 1890 he was visiting physician to the Indiana Insti- tute for the Blind, publishing, for the first time, annua! reports concerning the health of the pupils, the sanitary condition of the buildings and statistics as to the causes of blindnes?. From 1885 to 1895 he was United States Examining Surgeon of the Pension Bureau at Indianapolis and he served as med- ical examiner to several life insurance com- panies and as a member of the Governor's staff. His contributions to medical literature were not numerous but his interest in writing was such that he. learned to write well. In 1885 he published "Elements of Modern Medicine," and in 1894, he gathered together 1,208 biog- raphies of living and dead .■merican phy- sicians, under the title: "Biography of Emi- nent American Physicians and Surgeons," a quarto of 729 pages, illustrated by photo- engravings, published in Indianapolis. This was a valuable contribution and repre- sents a great deal of labor spread over a series of years. Most of the biographies of those physicians who were living at that time, were autobiographies and those collected from