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Saratoga Battle Ground (1894); History of Washington County, N. Y.; Classic Ground of America; Life of Gov. George Clinton, in pre- paration (1903), and numerous contributions to biographical and general cyclopedias and to his- torical periodicals.

STONE, NN'illiam Hilo, governor of Iowa, was born in JclTerson county, N.Y., Oct. 14, 1827; son of Truman and Lavinia (North) Stone. He removed with his parents to Coshocton, Oliio, in 1833; attended the public schools not more than twelve months during his boyhood, and was a driver-boy on the Ohio and Erie canal. He be- came a traveling maker and mender of cliairs, meanwhile studying the English branches, and subsequently studied law and practised in part- nership with his first preceptor, James Mathews, in Coshocton, 1851-54, and in Knoxville, Iowa, 1854-61. He founded the Knoxville Journal in 1855; was a delegate to the Republican state convention; an elector on the Fremont and Day- ton ticket, and judge of the Iowa district court, 1857-61. He was married. May 4, 1857, to Caro- line, daugliter of the Hon. James Mathews, his law partner. He read the call of President Lincoln for 75,000 men and announced in open court: " This court is now adjourned until after the war." He resigned his office, raised a com- pany of volunteers in Knoxville, and was elected major of the 3d Iowa, with which he marched to Missouri. He was wounded in the head at the Battle of Blue Mills, and commanded his regi- ment at Shiloh, Tenn., on April 6, 1862, when he was wounded in the arm and captured with General Prentiss's command. He was sent to Libby prison, Richmond, and was paroled for forty days by President Davis to visit Washing- ton for the purpose of inducing Secretarj^ Stanton to agree upon a cartel for the exchange of pris- oners, and when he found his mission unsuccess- ful, he returned to Richmond, reported to Presi- dent Davis and was returned to Libby prison. He was subsequently exchanged, returned to Iowa and was commissioned colonel, 22d Iowa volunteers, and while leading a charge at Vicks- burg. May 22, was slightly wounded. In the action at Blue Springs, Tenn., Oct. 10, 186-3, he was severel}' wounded. He was elected governor of Iowa in 1863, as successor to Governor Kirk- wood (q.v.), and served, 1864-68. During liis administration, he was influential in securing the appointment of 100 days' volunteers, and raised four regular brigades and a battalion con- sisting in all of 4000 men. He also succeeded in crushing the power of the " Sons of Liberty " throughout the state. He was an eleftor-at- iarge from Iowa on the Harrison and ]\Iorton ticket in 1888. He died at Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory, July 18, 1893.

STONE, William Murray, tliird bishop of Maryland, and 2;Jd in succession in the American ei)iscopate, was born in Somerset county, Md., June 1, 1779; great-grandson of Gov. William Stone. He was graduated from Washington college, Cliestertown, Md., A.B., 1799. A.M.. 1802, and was admitted to the diaconate. May 17. 1802, in St. Paul's church, Prince George county, Md., where he was also advanced to the priest- hood, Dec. 27, 1803. He was rector of Stepney parish, Somerset (Wicomico) county, Md., 1803- 26; of St. Paul's. Chestertown, 1829-30, and in May. 1830, was elected bishop, being consecrated in St. Paul's church, /^JL^^ Baltimore, Md., Oct. 21, 1830, by /^/\^\ Bishops White, Moore, H. U. Onder- |V*Safeffl\\\ donk and Meade. He received the [1' honorary degree of D.D, from Co- v^- lumbia college in 1830, and is the author of: A Charge to the Clergy and Laity of Maryland (1831); A Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Maryland (1835); and The Ser- mon before the General Conve^ition of the P.E. Church (1835). He died in Salisbury, Md., Feb. 26, 1838.

STONE, WInthrop Ellsworth, educator, was born in Chesterfield, N.H., June 12, 1862; son of Frederick L. and Ann (Butler) Stone; grandson of Lawson and Hannah (Fisk) Stone, and of Amaziahand Fanny (Hall) Stone, and a descend- ant of Simeon and Joanna (Clark) Stone, who came to Watertown from London, England, in 1635. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural college, B.S., 1882, and from Boston university, 1886, meanwhile serving as assistant chemist to the Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment station, 1884-86. He was chemist to the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment sta- tion, 1888-89; professor of chemistry in Purdue imiversity, La Fayette, Ind., from 1889; vice- president of the university, 1892-1900, and in the latter year was elected president. Dr. Stone was married, June 24, 1889, to Victoria, daughter of Ferdinand and Bertha (Berthold) Heitmueller, of Gottingen, Germany. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the Georgia Augusta university of Gottingen, Germany, in 1888. His scientific publications include numerous chem- ical researches upon the carbohj-drates.

STONE, Witmer, naturalist and author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1866; son of Frederick Dawson and Anne Eveline (Witmer) Stone. He was educated at the Germantown academy, Philadelphia, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1887, A.M., 1891. He served as ornithologist and botanist to the exj)loring expedition to Yucatan and l\lexico under the auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, being one of the party