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JOHN Y. STONE was born near Springfield, Illinois, on the 23d of April, 1843,
and came with his parents to Iowa in 1856. He received a liberal education
and at the beginning of the War of the Rebellion enlisted in the Fifteenth Iowa
Infantry and served until peace was restored. He then returned to Glenwood
and studied law with William Hale, afterwards entering into partnership with
him. Mr. Stone was elected Representative in the House of the Twelfth and
Thirteenth General Assemblies and to the Senate of the Fourteenth, serving four
years in each branch. In 1875 he was again elected to the House, serving four
years more, the last term as Speaker. He was a delegate to the National
Republican Convention of 1876 and a member of the National Republican Committee from
1876 to 1880. He was again a delegate to the National Republican Convention
in 1884. In 1888 he was nominated by the Republican State Convention for
Attorney-General and elected, serving three terms. During his busy life in law in
law and politics, General Stone has found time to engage largely in fruit
growing. He began many years ago to plant apple trees in Mills County and
continued until over eight hundred acres were in orchard, upon which were growing
more than 100,000 bearing apple trees. He also planted a vineyard of more than
75,000 grape vines; these with his apple orchard made the largest fruit
plantation in the State.
Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm
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