Stone, John S., a Presbyterian minister, was born at Madrid, St. Lawrence Co., "n. Y., in November, 1823. He enjoyed the training and counsel of earnest, devoted Christian parents, spent the most of the early part of his life in teaching, studied theology privately, was dulj- licensed by the St. Lawrence Association in 1852, com- menced his labors at Redford, N. Y., and was ordained by a Congregational Council in 1854. In June, 1860, he became pastor of the Church at Au Sable Forks, N. Y., which post he tilled with marked fidelity, until he was constrained to enter the service of the LTnited States, and received a captain's commission in 1862. He was killed in his first battle. May 16, 1864. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1866, p. 225.
Stone, Joseph, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in England about the year 1742. He emi- grated to America early in life, was admitted into the itinerancy in 1796, and appointed to Montgomery Circuit, in 1797-98 to Federal, in 1799 to Fairfax, in 1800-1 to Frederick, in 1802 to Huntington, in 1803 to Carlisle, in 1804 to Alleghany, in 1805 to Frederick, in 1806 to Winchester, in 1807-8 to Fairfax, in 1809 to Berkley, in 1810 to Loudon, Va. ; and in 1811 the Conference granted him a superannuated relation, in which he was retained till death, Oct. 7, 1818. He was a plain, zeal- ous, and useful minister of the Gospel. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, i, 824; Stevens, Hist, of the M. E. Church, iv, 244; Bangs, Hist, of the M. E. Chmxh, iii, 98.
Stone, R. "W., a minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, South, was born in White County, Tenn., 1846. He first united with the Baptist Church in 1869, but joined the Methodists the same year. He was soon after licensed to preach, and was admitted to the Louis- ville Conference in 1869, but died in Allen County, Ky., Feb. 24, 1 873. See Minutes of A nnuul Conferences of the M. E. Ch., South, 1873, p. 86(5.
Stone, Samuel, a Congregational minister, was born at Hertford, England, and was educated at Eman- uel College, Cambridge. He then studied divinity under the instruction of Rev. Richard Blackerby. Being a Non- conformist, he resolved to seek the more congenial at- mosphere of New England, and arrived in America Sept. 4, 1633. On Oct. 11 following a Church was organized at Newtown, Conn., of which he was ordained teacher, Mr. Hooker being ordained pastor. In June, 163(), near- ly the whole Church, including pastor and teacher, re- moved to Hartford, where Mr. Stone labored wiih Mr. Hooker for fourteen years, and then became sole pastor. This position he rctanied until his death, July 26, 16(;3. The latter part of his ministry was embittered by a vi- olent controversy in the Church, originating in a dis- pute on some ecclesiastical topic between himself and a Mr. Goodwin, a ruling elder. The origin of the misun- derstanding is uidiiiown. Jlr. Stone published a Dis- course on the Lor/icdl Nation if a Conr/ret/dtional Church (Loud. 1652) ; and left in ]MS. a work against Antinomi- anisni, and a body of divinity. See Sprague, .1 /int/^ of the Ante?: Pulpit, i, 37.
Stone, Timothy, a Congregational minister, was
born July 23 (O. S.), 1742, and entered Yale College in 1759, from which he graduated in due course. After his graduation he taught school in North Branford. studied theology under Rev. Mr. Brinsmade, of Judea (now Washington), Conn., and was licenseii to preach by the New Haven Association, Sept. 24, 1705. He preached for some time in Hanover, and was then set- tled at lioshen, Conn., Sept. 30, 1707 ; and while there dis- contiinied the use of the " Half-way Covenant." i.e. of admitting to bajitism the children of parents who pro- fessed a belief in (Christianity, aiul were not immoral in their lives, though they ilid not partake of the ordi- nance of the supper. About the year 1790 he preached the Concio ad Clerum at Yale. He died Jlay 12, 1797. The following is a list of iMr. Stone's publications: A Sermon on Selfishness (1778) : — Sermon on the Death of Maclam Faith Trumbull {17H0) -. — Election Sermon (1792) : — and Ordination Sermon (1794). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 631.
Stone, "William Murray, D.D., an Episcopal clergyman, was born in Somerset County, Md., June 1, 1779, and graduated from Washington College, Kent Co., Md. He studied divinity under Rev. George Da- shiell, Baltimore; was ordained deacon by bishop Clag- gett. May 17, 1802; and priest, by the same prelate, Dec. 27, 1803. Soon after his ordination as deacon he was called to the rectorship of Stepney Parish, where he remained until, in 1829, he removed to Chester Parish. He was chosen bishop of Maryland June 1, 1830, and consecrated Oct. 21. He died Feb. 26, 1837. The hon- orary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Colum- bia College in 1830. He published, A Charge (1831) : — Pastoral Letter (1835) :— and A Sermon (1835). See Sprague, A nruils of the A mer. Pulpit, v, 484.
Stone, William Rodman, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 25, 179«, but removed in chililhood, with his parents, to Boston. In his twenty-second year he united with the Church; and in June, 1825, joined the New England Conference on probation. He served in the regular pastorate until \Hh-l, when he was appointed city missionary in Cambridge, and two years after the chaplaincy of the ]\Iiddlesex County House of Correc- tion was added to his labors. In these fields of labor he continued until the infirmities of age confined him to his home. Ho died at Cambridge, June 27, 1875. See Minutes (f Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 09.