STONE, DAN, was born March 13, 1800, in Monkton, Addison county, Vermont, and graduated at Middlebury College, in his native State, in 1818. He went to Cincinnati and studied law with his uncle, Ethan Stone, and was married in that city in 1824 to Augusta M. Farnsworth, who was born March 8, 1808, in Vermont, also. Mr. Stone practiced law in Cincinnati a few years, and during that time was a member of the State Legislature of Ohio, and four years a member of the City Council. He moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1834, and in 1836 was elected one of the Representatives of Sangamon county to the Legislature of Illinois. He was, consequently, one of the "Long Nine." See sketch under that heading. While a member of the Legislature he received the appointment of Judge of the Circuit Court, and was assigned to the district in the extreme northwestern part of the State, and moved to Galena. In 1838 he rendered a decision, with reference to the vote of an alien, that was distasteful to the Democratic party--he being a Whig. That decision led to a reorganization of the judiciary system of the State. The Supreme Court then consisted of four Judges. In February, 1841, the Legislature added five to the Court, all Democrats, and made it the duty of the nine judges composing the Supreme Court to act as Circuit Judges, also. Judge Stone, finding himself thus legislated out of office, soon left the State, and a few years later died in Essex county, New Jersey.

His son, Henry S., is unmarried and lives in San Francisco. His daughter, Jennie A., now the wife of Josiah Paul, lives in Cincinnati. His widow resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, also--1876.