The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-07
BY ALEXANDER HERMAN
NEA Service Staff Writer

New York, April 7.-Harlan Fiske
Stone, new attorney general, is al
leading lawyer, inspiring educator,
apt fisherman, devoted husband,
chummy father, but best Of all
the finest son-in-law in all the
world.
SO says Mrs. z. M. Harvey, his
mother-in-law who has lived with
him for 1s years. In all that time
/ have never heard cross word or
seen anything but a smile. Some
may joke about the 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. H. Both were farm
ing 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
l guess they still are
Athletic Star
Young Stone went to Amherst;
Agnes went to the Vermont Academy
and they kept close track of each
other and their romance grew.
Proudly the girl heard of his football
exploits. He became her hero.
Yet it was not primarily as an
athlete that Stone shone, but as a
scholar. He won Phi Beta Kappa
key and came on to New York to
study law at Columbia. In 1898 he
was graduated and admitted to
practice. Just as soon hs was able
to make living / went back home
and married., said the attorney gen
eral few minutes after arriving
home to tell his mother-in-l law of his
appointment.
The young couple moved to New
York and the young barristcr pro-
ceeded to make name for himself
in his calling. He joined the law
offices Of Sullivan and Cromwell
and became an expert in litigation.
But he did not give up his academic
work. His brilliance won him an APP
pointment as an instructor in the
school where he had been student
but year before.
In 1906 he became professor and
five years later dean, position
which he held until last fall when
he resigned to devote more Of his
time to private practice. All these
years he never let his work interfere
with his family rlations., He was
the pal of his two sons, Marshall,
now 81, and Lauson, 19.
Greatest Thrill
His greatest thrill comes with their
achievements. Marshall became an
expert in mathematics and was grad
uated from Harvard at 10, became
an instructor at 20, and expects to
get his Phi. ID. this year. Lauson
is Harvard junior and hopes to fol-
low his fathers calling.
i ''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 a
scholar. He does not like golf, mo-
toring and other diversions of, the
| usual pTulcSStOndl man. his ldVOTltc
outdoor sport is fishing. His favor
ite indoor sport is reading. Neither
h" nor his boys smoke, but they
raise some smoke with their discus
si0ns.
When they don't spend summers
travelling abroad they spend them on
ISL" Au Haut, Maine.
/ This summer Pa Stone will prob
ably have to stay in Washington, for
the job before him will be the hard
est he ever tackled requiring all his
skill as scholar litigator and-fisher-
man.
Mrs. Stone may not be able to help
her husband With his momentous
task. For she has not been in good
Ehealth the past few weeks,
; But Stone under tension fights
hardest, as his strong square chin
indicates.