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of Micajuli Stone, his parents and grandparents being natives of Virginia. His mother was a niece of Hon. Jabez Leftwicli of Madison county, Ala. His parents removed to Tennessee in 1817, and he was educated in the old field scliools. He was admitted to the bar in 1834, and in 1840 set- tled in Talladega. Ala. He was judge of the cir- cuit court, 1843-48; judge of the supreme court, 1856-65; associate justice of that court, 1876-84, and chief justice, 1884-94, being distinguished both as a lawyer and judge. He was married first, Dec. 16, 1834. to Mary, daughter of George and Martha (Morgan) Gillespie of Franklin, Tenn.; secondly, Sept. 4, 1849. to Emily, daugh- ter of William and Dolly (Rutherford) Moor of Lowndes county, Ala., and thirdly, Feb, 8, 1866, to Mary E. Wright (widow), daughter of the Hon. Paschal and Elizabeth (Phillips) Harrison of Georgia. He died at his residence in Mont- gomery, Ala., March 11, 1894.

STONE, James Andrus Blinn, educator, was born in Piermont, N.H. He was graduated from Middlebury college, Vermont, A.B., 1834, and from Andover Theological seminary, Mass., 1839, meanwhile serving as principal of Hinesburg academy, Vt., 1834-36, and as tutor in Middle- bury college, 1838. He was ordained to the Bap- tist ministry, Nov. 13, 1839; was pastor at Glou- cester, Mass., 1839-41; and was editor of a mis- sionary publication, Boston, Mass., 1842-43, He then removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., where he was pastor, 1843-4S; president and professor of intel- lectual and moral philosophy, Kalamazoo college, 1843-63, and was also professor of systematic theology and Biblical interpretation at the Theo- logical institute of Kalamazoo, 1854-63. He was editor of the Kalamazoo Telegraph for several years; postmaster for four years; pastor at the Tabernacle Baptist church, 1866-69, and there- after engaged in journalism. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Madison univer- sity, Hamilton, N.Y., 1853; was president of the Michigan State Teachers' and the Michigan Pub- lishers' associations, and is the autlior of several theological publications. He died in Detroit, Mich., May 19, 1888.

STONE, James Kent, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 10, 1840; son of the Rev. John Seely (q.v.), and Mary (Kent) Stone, and grandson of Chancellor James Kent (q.v.). He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1861, A.M. 1863, meanwhile continuing his studies at the University of Gottingen and in Italy. He en- listed in the civil war, 2d Massachusetts volun- teers, but was obliged to retire from service on account of his severe injuries. He was a.ssistant professor of Latin language and literature in Kenyon college, Ohio, 1862-63; professor of the same, 1863-67; and professor of mental and moral

philosophy, and president of the college, 1867-68. He was married in 1863 to Cornelia, daughter of Harrison Fay of Boston, Mass., by whom he had three children. He was elected president of Ho- bart college, Geneva, N.Y., in 1868, but resigned in 1869, soon after becoming a convert to the Roman Catholic faith and a member of the mis- sionary society of St. Paul, the Apostle (Paulist Fathers), New York city. In 1876 he joined the Order of the Passion (in which he was known as Father Fidelis), filling various oflSces in Europe and the United States, and also establishing houses of his order in Chili and Argentine Repub- lic, during his twelve years' residence in South America. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Racine college, Wisconsin, in 1868. and is the author of The Jnvitaton Heeded (1870). STONE, John Hoskins, governor of Marj'- land, was born in Charles county, Md., in 1745; son of David and Elizabeth (Jenifer) Stone; grandson of Daniel Jenifer, the delegate (q.v.). He was liberally educated, and commenced the practice of law. He was a member of the committee from Charles count}*, Md., to carry out the resolutions of the Continental congress, in November, 1774; a member of the correspondence com- mittee, and also of the Asso- ciation of Freeman of Maryland in 1775. He was elected by the state convention captain of the 1st Maryland regiment, Col. William Smallwood, Jan. 14, 1776; promoted colonel in December, took part in the battles at Long Island, White Plains, Princeton and at Germantown, where he received a wound which caused permanent lameness, and he resigned from the army, Aug. 1, 1779. He was a member of the state legislature, 1786, and gov- ernor of Maryland, 1794-97. During his adminis- tration in response to a request from President Washington, he loaned the government $250,000 toward the construction of public buildings at the capitol. His daughter, Eliza, was married to Dr. Nathaniel Pope Causin. Governor Stone was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He died at Annapolis, Md., Oct. 5, 1804.

STONE, John Marshall, governor of Missis- sippi, was born in Gibson county, Tenn., April 30, 1830; son of Asher and Judith (Royall) Stone, natives of Virginia; grandson of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Whitworth) Stone, and a descendant of Joshua Stone (born, 1700), who lived in Lun- enburg county, Va. Asher Stone (1807-1841) lost his property in 1837, and the son, being the eldest of nine children, received in con- sequence a limited education. He became in- dependent in 1847; removed to luka, Tisho- mingo county, Miss., in 1855, and entered the