Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-15
He's the "FineSt in the
World, " She Says, After
Living in His Home for
Last Eighteen Years

NEW YORK, April 12.-Harlan
Fiske Stone. new attorney general,
is leading lawyer. inspiring edu-
Gator, apt fisherman, devoted hus-
band, chummy father, but best of all
the finest son-in-law in all the
world"
SO says Mrs. E. NJ Harvey, his
mother-in-law, who has lived with
him for eighteen years. In all that
time [ have never heard a cross
word or seen anything but a smile.
Some may joke about mother-in-law,
but Harlan jokes with her.
Mrs. Harvey has known Stone
since he was four months old. His
family and hers were neighbors in
Chesterfield, n. II. Both we've
farming folk.
Quite naturally Harlan and my
daughter, Agnes, who is a few years
his junior, grew up together" the
beaming mother-in-law went on.
They became young sweethearts
and | guess they still are.
Athletic Star
Young Stone went to Amherst
AGNES wet to the Vermont aCade-
my, and they kept close track of
each other and their romance grew.
Proudly the girl heard of his foot
ball exploits. He became her hero.
Yet it was not primarily as an
athlete tH"t Stone sh- lie, but as
scholar He VOL Phi Beta Kappa
key and came on to New York to
study law at Columbia. In 1898 he
was era lated admitted to prac-
tiCc Just as soon as | able to
make A living | went back home and
married" said the attorney general
a few minutes after arriving home
to tell his mother-in-law of his APP
pointment..
The young couple moved 10 Ne"
Yo.E and the young bar ';Stcr pro
&C eded to make q. name for himself
in his calling. He joined the law
offices of Sullivan & Cromwell and
L,cance an expert m litigation. But
he did not give up his academic
work. His brilliance won him an
appointment as an instructor in the
school where he had been student
but wear before.
In 1905 he became a professor ana
FIVE years later dean, posliloh
which he held until last fall When
he resigned TO devote more OF MS
time TO private practice. All these
wears he never let his work inter
fere with his family relations. lie
was the pal Of his two sons, Marsh
ali now twenty-one, and Lauson,
nineteen. -,
HIS greatest thrill comes with thelf
,chieyements. Marshall became an
expert in mathematics and was grao-
mated from Harvard at 10, became
an instructor at 20. and expects 10
GET his Phi. D. this year. Jauson IS
Harvard junior and hopes to 1oIloW
his fathers calling.
The boys and father make great
trio" says Mrs. Harvey, when they
get together and discuss things"
Dean Stone, as he still is called
around Columbia, is fundamentally
scholar. He does not Ike golf, mo-
toring and other diversions of the
usual professional man His favor
tie outdoor sport is fishing. His
favorite indoor sport is reading,
Neither he nor his boys smoke. but
they raise some smoke with their
discussions.
When they don't spent summers
travelling abroad they spend them
on Isle Au Haul, Maine.
This summer Pa Stone will prob
ably have to stay in Washington, for
the job before him viii be the hard
est he ever tackled requiring all his
skill as scholar. Iitigator and-f.sher-
man.
Mrs. Stone may not be able to help
her husband with his momentous
task. For she has not been in good
health the past few weeks.
But Stone under tension fights
hardest as his strong square chin
indicates.