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Confederate army as a captain of the luka Rifles in the 2d Mississippi A'oluuteers, April, 1861. He was in the first battle of Manassas. July 31, 1861 ; and elected colonel of the 2d Mississippi regi- ment, Joseph R. Davis's brigade, A. P. Hill's corps. Army of Northern Virginia. At Gaines's Mill, June 27, 1862, he served in E. M. Law's brigade ; was engaged in the second battle of Manassas ; in the Maryland campaign ; in the Gettysburg campaign, where he was twice wounded ; in the battles in the Wilderness, where he did distinguished service and was told by General Lee : ' ' You have w-on the stars of a major-general." He refused the commission of brigadier-general, because his regiment could not serve in his brigade ; frequently commanded his brigade, and did conspicuous service in nearly ■all the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. On April 12, 1865, he was taken prisoner at Salis- bury, N.C., being released, July 25. He served as station agent at luka. Miss. ; was mayor of luka ; treasurer of Tishomingo county, 1866-68 ; state senator, 1869-77, being president of the senate 2oro tempore, 1876, and was the defeated Democratic candidate for representative in the 43d congress in 1872. He was married. May 2, 1872, to Mary Gillam, daughter of James Matthew and Elizabeth (Mason) Coman of luka,' Miss., and their two children died in infancy. He be- came acting gpvernor of Mississippi in August, 1876, upon the resignation of Governor Ames and tlie re- moval of Lieutenant-Gover- nor Davis, and was elected governor in 1878, serving, 1878-82. He again served, 1889-95, his term having been extended by a revision of the state constitution. He was president of the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Stark- ville, Miss., at the time of liis death, which oc- curred at Holly Springs, March 2, 1900.

STONE, John Seely, clergyman and author, was born in AVest Stockbridge, Mass., Oct. 7, 1795 ; son of Ezekiel and Mary (Seely) Stone ; grandson of Silas and Rachel Stone ; great-grand- son of Joshua and Susannah (Parmelee) Stone, and a descendant of the Rev. Samuel Stone of Hertford, England, two of whose seven sons were settled in Guilford, Conn., among the original planters of that town. His first son, the Rev. Simeon Stone of Cambridge, England, was born in 1585. John Seely Stone was graduated from Union college, Schenectady, N.Y., A.B., 1823, and continued his studies at the General Theo- logical seminary. New York city. He was tutor in Latin and Greek in Hobart college, Geneva, N.Y., 1825-26 ; was ordained deacon, Jan. 4, 1826, and priest, June 7, 1827, in Christ churcli, Hart- X. — 4

ford. Conn., by Bishop Brownell. He was rector of Michaers church, Litchfield, Conn., 1827 ; of All Saints' church, Frederick City, Md., 1828-29 ; of Trinity church. New Haven, Conn., 1830-32; of St. Paul's church, Boston, Mass., 1832-41; of Christ church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1841-52, and of St. Paul's church, Brookline, Mass., 1852-62. He was Griswold lecturer in the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1862-67, and was influential in founding the theological school in Cambridge, Mass., of which he was dean, 1867-76, in the latter year retiring from active service. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Kenyon college, Gambler, Oliio, in 1837. He was twice married : first. May 2, 1826, to Sophia, daughter of James Adams and Susan (Morrison) Robinson, and granddaughter of Malcolm Morrison ; and second!}-, Sept. 5, 1839, to Mary, daughter of Chancellor James Kent. He is the author of: Memoir of Bishop Orisioold (1844) ; The Mysteries Opened (1844), republished as Cliristian Sacraments (1866) ; The Christian Sabbath (1844), 2d ed. entitled TJie Di- vine Rest (1867) ; The Church Universal (1846), republished as The Living Temple (1866) ; Memoir of Rev. Dr. Milnor (1848); The Contrast (1853). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 13, 1882.

STONE, Lucy, reformer, was born in West Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818 ; daughter of Fran- cis and Hannah (]\Iatthews) Stone ; grand-daugh- ter of Col. Francis and Sarah (Witt) Stone, and of Solomon and Lydia (Bowman) Matthews ; de- scendant through Jonathan, Jonathan, Nathaniel and John, of Gregory Stone, born in Great Brom- ley, England, who came to America in 1635 or 1636, and settled in Cambridge, where he died in 1672. Col. Francis Stone, with his father, Jonathan Stone, served in the French and Indian war, and was an officer in the American Revolution, commanding a company of 400 men in Shays's rebellion, 1787. Lucy Stone attended the com- mon schools and by self-efforts earned a college education, being graduated in 1847 from the classical department of Oberlin college, Oliio, where she had given especial attention to the study of Greek and Hebrew in order to aid her in an accurate interpretation of the Scriptures as bearing upon the subject of woman suffrage, to which cause she had decided to devote her life. She delivered her first lecture on woman's rights in Gardner, Mass., 1847; lectured under the auspices of the Massachusetts Antislavery society, 1848, and at the same time publicly ad- vocated her own cause. She was married, May 1, 1855, to Henry B. Blackwell, a merchant of Cincinnati, Ohio, brother of Dr. Elizabeth Black- well (q. v.), but continued to be known by her maiden name. She settled in New Jersey in 1857; was a lecturer in the woman suffrage amend-