Contra Costa-Sacramento-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Stone, Albert W. 1821 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

ALBERT W. STONE.—The subject of our sketch, whose portrait it affords us
pleasure to place before our readers, is a native of Erie county, Pennsylvania,
born September 18, 1821, where  he spent his early boyhood until fourteen years
of age. His parents then moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he attended the
common schools and resided until 1838. He then moved to Van Buren county, Iowa,
with his parents, when our subject learned the trade of blacksmith, which he
followed until 1852. In May, of that year, he started with ox-teams and a drove
of stock to cross the plains to California, arriving in Sacramento, September
1st, of the same year, where he disposed of his stock, and engaged in his former
business of blacksmith for a short time. Then our subject engaged in several
different occupations until February 13,1853, when he sailed via Panama and New
Orleans, for his home in Iowa, where he sojourned only long enough to fit out
teams and wagons, and again started, accompanied by his wife and family, to
cross the plains to make his home in the Golden State. Mr. Stone first settled
in Colusa county on land now occupied by Dr. Glenn, and there engaged in
stock-raising. In January, 1858, he selected Contra Costa as his future home,
and purchased his now valuable farm of eight hundred acres, adjoining the town
of Alamo, where he has made many and substantial improvements, and is engaged in
general farming. Mr. Stone was twice married; first, in Erie county,
Pennsylvania, October, 1847, to Miss Alice J. Ward. She died in October, 1851,
leaving one son, Edward A.; married, secondly, in Van Buren county, Iowa, Miss
Martha Smith, a native of England, by which union they have seven children:
Martha J., William J., Elwin L., Alonzo L., Flora M., Susanna G. and Annie A.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.



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