Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-03-14
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C.. NJ Stone, the editor of the St Johns
bury CALIFORNIAN, died on Wednesday morn
ing at jacksonville, Florida, where he had
gone with his wife and party of st. Johns
bury friends for a few weeks rest The
announcement Of his death was entirely un-
expected, and it caused painful shock to
all who knew him, and especially to his
friends in the newspaper profession in Yer
mont. The cause was congestion of the
lungs
Mr.. Stone was, in the fullest aud best
sense Of the term, a self made man With
out early advantages Of any kind, and be
ginning as a printers apprentice at the age
Of only - years he grew up by the moral
force of his own steadfast and answering
personality, to make for himself one of the
most honorable places ever held by any
man in the editorial ranks in Vermont.
His full name was Charles Marshall Stone
His birth took place in April, 1893, on a
farm near Lyndon Centre. lie began his
apprenticeship in the Caledonian Office then
owned by its founder, A. g. Chadwick in
1913, and never left that office. In 1885,
he became part owner of the paper with
Geo. d. Rand, now Boston architect and
two years later became the sole owner, do
ing the business under the name Of G. VI
Stone x Co., because as he once told the
writer, he thought at that time 1t sounded
better" This ownership he retained until
Jan / 1889, when his elder son, Arthur f.
Stone, came to Il half-interest in the con
Germ. Mr.. Stone was married in May
1855 to Sarah Fairbanks, daughter of the
late ex Gov Erastus Fairbanks of St
Johnsbury. Four children were born tc
them, three of whom survive-Mary F.,
Arthur f and Phillip II.
As a man in public life Mr.. Stones most
notable characteristics were his strength of
personal conviction, his intolerance OF
whatever seemed to him to he wrong, and
his independence and fearlessness in up
holding whatever he believed to he right
His religious life was one of rare sincerity
and earnestness. His temperance princi
Piles were of the most uncompromising
kind and in all the social, benevolent and
hlIillAihE Nbi n VI a community ubldblt lbI
its organized efforts in these directions the
influence Of Mr., Stone and his wife have
always been strongly felt
His personality in his own local field of
newspaper work had grown steadily with
every added year, and he had taken a hold
upon his clientage which was remarkable,
and which no opposition could break down.
He was a vigorous and graceful writer not
given 10 long discussions, but making con
else and pointed everything that left his
all its contents, its advertisements included,
as in its print and makeup, and for a score
Of years his fellow craftsmen have pointed
to it with pride as the one model and typi-
cal Vermont newspaper.
Mr., Stones qualities were not those
which conspire to popularity in the usuaI
sense Of that term, but those who differed
from him most widely acknowledged their
high respect for him, and testified to his
unhending honesty, sincerity and integrity
Those who knew him best thought he some
times lacked in tact and made too little al
lowance for the ways and the weaknesses
of human nature, but they also knew him
as man as sensitive and warm hearted as
a child, and friend to he relied on and be-
eved in in every circumstance and relation
Of life To such his death brings a sense
Of deep bereavement, which it is their
privilege TO share with his stricken family.
1t is fortunate for the press of the state
that the Caledoniau is left in the hands of
a son Of its long time owner, who inherits
his fathers high aims and convictions, al
ready well trained in newspaper work in
the home field, and who will faithfully and
ably maintain the papers traditions, aud
its onward looking methods and principles