The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-19
THE REF. Ro1AIN $. STONE.

Death of "a Preacher of Activity and Success
full Workable 1S32-SOme of His Class
mates.
Hartford, March 1s.-A long and use
full life was ended Saturday by the
death of the Rev. Rollin S. Stone at the
residence of his niece, Mrs. e. b. Wat
lkinson, at 725 Asylum avenue. Mr.,
Stone was born in Canton, this state,
in 1909 He was graduated at Yale col
lege in 1882 in the class noted for it's
rebellion and the withdrawal of a large
number of members from the college,
Among his classmates were the Rev.
Samuel R. Brown, D. D., SO long mis-
sionary in China and Japan; the Hon,
Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky, Henry A.
Forest, missionary to Syria; the Rev.
Henry L. Hitchcock, d. D., president Of
Western Reserve college; Professor
Samuel NJ Hopkins of Auburn Theo-
logical seminary, General William H.
Noble of Bridgeport, Professor Edward
e. Salisbury. the first to hold the pro-
censorship Of Arabic and Sanskrit at
Yale college; DR.. Alfred Stille of Phil
adelphia, and the Rev. Collin Stone, his
cousin, the late principal of the Ameri-
can college. The Hartford Courant says
of his career:
After studying theology at the Yale
Theological seminary he was licensed
by the New Haven East association and
began to preach at Brooklyn, L. l., in a
mission enterprise which ripened into
oh nf
which Ell wasordained pastor and con-
tinued so to be until 1897 From 1888 to
1850 he was pestor of the First Congre-
gational church in Danbury In 1850 he
was installed pastor of the Congrega-
tional church at Easthampton, Mass,
which, under his ministry, outgrew its
house of worship and colonized, form
ing the Payson church at Easthampton,
Mr.. Stone being installed pastor of the
new organization in 1852 and so remain
ing until 1863. Under his ministration
the mebership grew rapidly and its
numbers soon exceeded those of the pa
rent church.
From 1863 to 1856 Mr. Stone was the
general agent of the National Freed
mans association in Vermont, his ter
ritory afterwards being extended to in
clude Long Island. Then followed four
teen years Of work as city missionary
in Brooklyn. N. Y. Receiving a call
from the Congregational church of
Chatham, N. j., he was installed over
1t in 1879 and filled its pastorate for
ten years, until failing health rendered
him unable to bear longer the burden
of it's duties. At the Invitation of his
niece, Mrs. Watkinson, he came to
Hartford with his daughter and grand
daughter in 1889 and had since made his
home with her. His active tempera-
ment and his love Of preaching would
not let him rest, and for about year
he supplied the pulpit Of the Congrega-
tional church in Barkhamsted.
Mr.. Stone was a clear and earnest
an independent thinker, a
man of progressive ideas even to- old
age. when most men become very con-
AS a pastor he won the
hearts Of his people, many of whom
still hold him in grateful and loving |
In 1885 Mr. Stone married Miss Urania |
q. Stone. daughter of Timothy and
Eunice Parmelee) Stone of Durham. !
Five children We're born TO them, of |
whom two survive, Miss Lucy M, Stone |
If this city and William S. Stone Of |
New York.