The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-20
Obituary..

SroNE.-Two weeks ago the WATCHMAH
contained a brief announcement of the
death of f. g. Stone at Saginaw, Mich,
Tuesday, December >. From the Saginaw
Courier Herald the particulars of Mr.. Stones
sickness and death are gathered. His
business partner, Charles w. Wells, had
died few weeks before. The relations of
the men had been those OF very warm per-
sonal friendship as well as of business.
Their commercial operations had been
widely extended and entered several
branches of trade. A heavy responsibility
suddenly devolved upon Mr.. Stone. Strong
ties of friendship had been suddenly sun
dered. Amid these trials, he was himself
attacked by illness. His malady developed
into catarrhal pneumonia complicated with
meningitis, the latter being the immediate
cause of death. Mr.. Stone was Washing
ton county boy, $40 the manner born"
Waterbury was the place, November II,
1886, the date, of his birth. In that town
his early youth was spent, and there he be-
gan his business life. There were his early
friends and his early associations and the
name of Chick Stone has ever been atfec-
tionately remembered and the associations
and friendships of the early days tenderly
cherished. The quality of the man is tested
by the fact of the survival, among his former
associates in Vermont who are still living,
of the old friendship in all its strength and
fondness after an absence OF quarter of a
century. At Waterbury, Mr.. Stone was for
several years in the employ of @. n. Arms,
then conducting a general store in the
brick building at the corner of Main and
Stowe streets. He was Tor a short time in
trade ON his own account in the store which
now forms a part of the establishment of
Atkins * Haines He went to Saginaw in
September, 1867, and the following year be-
came a member of the firm OF Wells, Stone
& Co. At the time of his death he was a
member of the following firms: Wells,
/ . a, ~ N.11 Ia
pany; MARSHALL Wells Hardware Company,
Duluth A. w. Wright Lumber Company
Wright, Davis Il Co.; Swan River Logging
Company. He was Vice-president of the
Wells-Stone Mercantile Company and was
| a stakeholder, although he never held the pO-
sition of director, in theFirst National Bank.
or Mr.. Stones rank in business circles of
| the esteem in which he was held Of his
| character as a man, the Saginaw Courier
| Herald speaks in terms of warmest eulogy.
| We quote the following: THE Co Urier
| Herald this morning would in some faint
way pay a tribute to one who, for twenty
| six years, has gone in and out in this COM
| munity the peer of the keenest business
mind whose activities have been attracted
| by the wealth of Saginaw's resources, and
at the same time the friend of the humblest,
! honest man with whom he was brought in
contact, the helper of young men who
aspired to positions of responsibility, and
| the benefactor of the unfortunate, who in
this did not let his right hand know what
his left hand did. Without political am-
btion he furnished the sinews of war for
the success of the principles he believed
were true; a modest, Christian man, his
princey gifts TO churches, Christian col
| eges, foreign and domestic missions, and
whatever good cause commended itself t.
his Judgment, were without ostentation oil
parade, without boasting or selfgratulation
but rather as il prompted as they doubtless
were, by the simple sense of duty as he saw
it," The expressions of sorrow, and the
evidences of love and honor his death evoke
show that a kindly, genial spirit rpenet
into the great-souled, big-hearted man o
which the youth gave promise. No warme
tributes to his memory are breathed thar
those uttered by his surviving friends
] around the old hearthstone.