Representative Henry Stone View All Years

HON. HENRY STONE.

MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee appointed to draft and present resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public services of the Hon. Henry Stone, late a member of the House of Representatives in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies, beg leave to submit the following as their report:

Henry Stone was born in Ohio in 1853 and was fifty-six years of age at the time of his death. He was a graduate of Oberlin college and soon after finishing his course he came to Marshall county and taught school near Marietta in the same county. Later he came to Marshalltown and with R. E. Sears he formed the law partnership of Sears & Stone, which continued for eighteen months after which time he practiced law alone in Marshalltown. Mr. Stone married Miss Florence Powell, but left no children.

In the year 1891 Mr. Henry Stone was elected as a republican, a member of the Twenty-fourth General Assembly from Marshall county and in November, 1893 was re-elected as a member of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly from Marshall county and on January 8th, 1894, he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. When the General Assembly met in 1894, Mr. Stone, together with Senator Cummins, Mr. Hepburn, Mr. Lacey and Mr. Perkins, became an active candidate for the nomination of United States Senator, this honor eventually going to the late Senator Gear. After retiring from the House, Mr. Stone resumed his practice of law in Marshalltown and in 1899 he was elected county attorney and in 1901 was re-elected, serving two terms. Mr. Stone was always active in politics and at one time was chairman of the County Republican Central Committee and was a regular attendant at all Republican State Conventions for many years.

Whereas, On July 31, 1909, Mr. Stone passed away in Chicago while taking treatment in a sanatarium and his life, character and services to the state were such as to entitle him to the confidence and eseem of his fellow citizens, and his services to the state and county were of such a character as to commend the confidence and gratitude of his fellow citizens, therefore, be it

Resolved, That in his death the state and county in which he resided lost a worthy and upright citizen and an honest, conscientious, and honorable man and we hereby extend to his bereaved wife and relatives our heartfelt sympathy in their sorrow, and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the wife of the deceased.

H. C. LOUNSBERRY,

G. W. KOONTZ,

ERNEST R. MOORE,

Committee.

Adopted.