predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place children party office birth_date term_start appointer spouse image article_title term_end name restingplace
william h. west george rex 23 december 1874 wooster , ohio oakland , california three republican ohio supreme court associate justice 18 november 1822 february 23 , 1873 edward follansbee noyes cordelia a. hitchcock walter f. stone.jpg walter f. stone
 september 10 , 1874 walter freeman stone oakland cemetery , sandusky , ohio
walter f. stone

walter freeman stone -lrb- november 18 , 1822 -- december 23 , 1874 -rrb- was a republican politician who was an ohio supreme court judge 1873-1874 .
walter stone was born at wooster , ohio .
his father died when he was young , but left adequate means that stone received an education .
he studied law in pittsburgh , where he studied under walter h. lowrie , who would later be chief justice of the pennsylvania supreme court. , and cleveland , and was admitted to the bar in 1845 in cleveland .
in 1846 , stone moved to sandusky , where he established partnerships with judge a. w. hendry , and later with ebenezer lane , who had served on the ohio supreme court for 15 years , and his son william g. lane as `` lane , stone & lane '' until 1865 .
he was initially a democrat , but joined the freesoilers in 1849 .
he was elected common pleas judge in 1865 and re-elected in 1870 .
in 1873 he was appointed by governor noyes to the ohio supreme court when william h. west resigned .
he was nominated by the republicans , and elected to the remainder of the term in 1873 , but had to resign in august 1874 .
stone married cordelia a. hitchcock on june 5 , 1851 , and they had three children .
stone retired to oakland , california for his health , but died december 23 , 1874 .
his funeral was january 5 , 1875 in sandusky , with burial in oakland cemetery in that city .
