Eben Francis Stone
Stone in 1862
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
In office
March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887
Preceded byGeorge B. Loring
Succeeded byWilliam Cogswell
Constituency6th district (1881–83)
7th district (1883–87)
Chairperson of the Massachusetts Republican Party
In office
1879–1880
Preceded byAdin Thayer
Succeeded byCharles A. Stott
11th Mayor of Newburyport
In office
1867–1867
Preceded byWilliam Graves
Succeeded byNathaniel Pierce
Member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
for the 4th Essex district
In office
1857–1858
In office
1861–1861
President of the
Newburyport Common Council
In office
June 24, 1851 – January, 1852
Preceded byNew office
Member of the
Newburyport Common Council
for Ward 4
In office
June 16, 1851 – January, 1852
Preceded byNew office
Personal details
BornAugust 3, 1822
Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
DiedJanuary 22, 1895(1895-01-22) (aged 72)
Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
Resting placeOak Hill Cometary
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Harriet Perrin, (d. December 31, 1889)
ChildrenFrances (Fanny) Coolidge Stone
Alma materHarvard University
ProfessionAttorney
Military service
AllegianceUnited States of America
Union
Branch/serviceUnion Army
Years of service1862 – September 3, 1863
Rank Colonel
Commands48th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War
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Eben Francis Stone (August 3, 1822 – January 22, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1881 to 1887.

Biography

Stone was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Ebenezer and Fanny (Coolidge) Stone.[1]

Stone attended North Andover Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1843 and from Harvard Law School in 1846. He was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Early career

He served as president of the common council in 1851.

He served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1857, 1858, and 1861. Stone enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, and commanded the 48th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Stone served as the eleventh mayor of Newburyport in 1867. Stone served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1867, 1877, 1878, and 1880.

Congress

Stone was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he died January 22, 1895. Stone was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

See also

References

  • United States Congress. "Eben F. Stone (id: S000956)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Headley, Phineas Camp: Public men of to-day: being biographies of the President and Vice-President of the United States, each member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and justices of the Supreme Court of the United, and of the Governors of the Several States., pages 590–591, (1882).

Notes

  1. 1 2 Currier, John James (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764–1905, Volume 2, Newburyport, MA: John James Currier, pp. 485–87
  2. ↑ Currier, John James (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764–1905, Volume 2, Newburyport, MA: John James Currier, p. 606

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