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ment campaigns, 18G7-S2 ; one of the founders of the American AVoman Suffrage association in ISGO, its president. 1(S72, and chairman of its executive committee, 1869-89. Sha was co-editor of the Woman's Jourual, 1870-72, and its editor- in-chief. 1872-93. her husband and daughter being associated with her. Slie published a protest against " taxati>n without representation '" (1857), and was actively associated with various woman suffrage nu)veint'nts and organizations. In 18G9 she removed to Dorchester, Mass., where her deatli occurred, Oct. 18, 1893.

STONE, Thomas, signer, was born in Charles county, Md., in 1743 ; descendant of William Stone, cdlonial governor. He was educated under a Scotch tutor ; studied law under Thomas John- son in Annapolis, Md., and began practice in Frederickton, Md., 1764. He married a daughter of Dr. G. Brown, wlio brought him 1000 pounds dowry, with which, in 1771, he purchased an es- tate near Port Tobacco, Charles county. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1775-79 and 1784-85, in the meantime serving as state senator, 1779-83. While in congress he was a member of various important committees, notably that charged with drafting a confederation ; signed the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, and was president pro tempore in 1784. In the state legislature he introduced a bill drafted by himself, advocating the abolition of primo- geniture, wiiich bill became the law of Maryland. He resumed the profession of the law in Anna- polis, Md., in 1785, in which year he again served as state senator, but retired from active life after the death of his wife in June, 1787. He died in Alexandria. Va., Oct. 5, 1787.

STONE, William, pioneer, was born in Guil- ford, Conn., Feb. 21, 1764; son of Seth, Jr., and Anna (Evarts) Stone ; grandson of Seth Stone and of Samuel and Mary Evarts. His mother was the granddaughter of Capt. Andrew Leete, judge of the superior court of Connecticut, who sat upon the trial of iMusey Disbrough for witch- craft in Fairfield county in 1692. He matricu- lated at Yale college, early in the Revolutionary war period, but left his studies in order to re- lieve his brotlier in the army, who was in ill health from continuous duty, and he served at White Plains, German town and Monmouth, and was present at the execution of Andre. He at- tended Dartmouth college, 1781-83, and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1787, A.M., 1789. He was married, Dec. 11, 1787, to Tamson Graves, who died at Sodus, N.Y., June 14, 1842. He was ordained to the ministry, and was one of the first pioneer preachers in western New York, settling in Sodus, N.Y., in 1808 and preaching in Dela- ware, Otsego, Chenango and Tioga counties. He died in Sodus, N.Y., March 20, 1840.

STONE, William Joel, senator, was born in Madison county, Ky., May 7, 1848 ; son of Will- iam and Mildred (Piielps) Stone ; grandson of Jolui and Sallie (Stone) Stone and of Jarrot and Mildred (Duncan) Phelps, and a descendant of William Stone, who came from England in 1644, in a colon}' under Calvert, Lord Baltimore, and settled in Maryland. He attended the University of Missouri, and was prosecuting attorney of Vernon county, 1873-74. He was married, April 2, 1874, to Sarah Louise, daughter of William K. and Catherine (Dixon) Winstou of Cole county. Mo. He was a presidential elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876. He was a Democratic representative from the twelfth Missouri district in the 49th, 50th, and 51st congresses, 1885-91, where he was a prominent advocate of tariff re- form. He was a member of the committee on public lands, reform and the civil service and labor troubles in Pennsylvania. He v\-as gover- nor of Missouri, 1893-97, and in 1896 became a member of the Democratic national committee. He took part in the national campaigns of 1896, delivering the notification speech announcing the nomination of Bryan and Sewall at the ]Madison Square Gardens meeting in New York, in the absence of S. M. White, ciiairman of th© notification committee. He was made vice- chairman of tlie national committee, and had charge of the New York headquai'ters during the campaign of 1900. On Jan. 20. 1903, he was elected U.S. senator from Missouri as successor to Senator George Graham Vest, whose term ex- pired, March 3. 1903, his term to expire March 3, 1909.

STONE, William Johnson, representative, was born in Caldwell county, Ky., June 26, 1841 ; son of Leasil and Nancy (Killen) Stone ; grand- son of Caleb and Rebecca Stone and of William and Nancy Killen. He attended Tyler's Collegiate institute at Cadiz, Ky., and was married, Oct. 29, 1867, to Cornelia, daughter of Thomas B. and Susan Woodyard of Cynthiana. Harrison county, Ky. He was a representative in the state legisla- ture, 1867, 1875 and 1883, and was speaker of tlie house in 1875. He was a Democratic representa- tive from the first Kentucky district in 49th-53d congresses, 1885-95, serving as a member of the committee on war claims.

STONE, William Leete, journalist and author, was born in New Paltz, N.Y., April 20, 1792 ; son of the Rev. William (q.v.) and Tamson (Graves) Stone; grandson of Selh, Jr., and Anna (Evarts) Stone ; and a descendant of William Leete (about 1603-1683), who emigrated from England in 1G39 ; settled in New Haven, Conn.; was the founder of Guilford. Conn., and governor of the state, 1661- 65 and 1G7&-.S3, and of John Stone (about 1610-87). William L. Stone removed with his parents to