People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — DEATH OF EX-GOV. STONE. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF EX-GOV. STONE.

The Well-Known lowan Passes Away Near Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City, O. T., July 19.—ExGpv. William Stone, of lowa, late commissioner general of the land office, died at his residence near this city Tuesday. [William M. Stone was born in Jefferson county, N. Y, in 1827. At, the age of 6he removed with his parents to Coshocton county,O., where he worked on a farm, as canal driver and learned the cbairmaking trade. At 24 he was admitted to the bar. In 1854 he went to lowa, settling at Knoxville. As editor of the Knoxville Journal he was the first to suggest a convention to organize the republican party in lowa. When Fort Sumter was fired on he resigned a district judgeship and mustered a company. He came out of the war as colonel of the Twenty-second lowa infantry, was elected governor in 1863 and again In 1865. He aftprwards served in - the lowa legislature, and was one of Greeley’s followers in 1872. When Harris on was elected he was made assistant commissioner of the land office, and when Carter resigned was made commissioner, which place he held until April 1 last.] Gov. Russell has appointed the author, Robert Grant* probate judge for Suffolk county. Grant is both b distinguished and remarkably clever Bostonian, In the magazines he continues such good work as characterized “The Little Tin Gods pn Wheels,” “Confessions of a Frivolous Girl,” “The Average Man,’” etc. The oldest German railroad was opened in 1835 and ran betweep, NOrenburg and Fnrth. Califobnia has forty Chinese temples, jNejvXork Oregon one. 1 fU'’"--