businessman, politician, b. Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. He migrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1841, settling in Waterford, N.Y. In Waterford he learned the machinist's trade, moved to Louisville, Ky., in 1855, and in 1869 settled in Wisconsin, where he became part owner of a baking firm at Watertown. A Republican, Stone was state assemblyman (1880, 1882, 1897-1898), a delegate to his party's national conventions in 1888 and 1892, and a member of the state central committee (1888-1894). In 1898 he was elected lieutenant governor, was re-elected in 1900, and served from Jan., 1899, until his death. Wis. Blue Book (1903); A. M. Thomson, Political Hist. of Wis. (Milwaukee, 1900); Watertown Gazette, May 16, 1902.

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[Source: Blue book]