San Benito-Santa Cruz-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Stone, William H. 1852 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

WILLIAM H. STONE, the first settler in southern San Benito county, located at
his present home, near Mulberry, in the fall of 1857. He is a California pioneer
of 1849, having come to the State, in that year from Boone county, Missouri.
Upon arrival in the "Golden State," he mined nearly all of the time, until 1853,
when he became sick and was obliged to return home. His second trip to the coast
was made the following year, and he spent two years in the redwood lumber camps
of Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties.

  When he came to California he brought with him only his son, John, a child of
a former marriage, as the mother had died in Missouri. In 1867 he married in
Hollister, Miss Hanna Thompson, a native of Putnam county, Ohio, daughter of
Alfred Thompson, who came to California in 1849. She bore her husband three sons
and two daughters, namely: Mary F., Edward F., Norman A., James A. and Freeman.

  Mr. Stone is a native of Albermarle county, Virginia, having been born there
in 1818. His father, John D. Stone, emigrated to Cumberland county, Tennessee,
in 1820, where our subject spent his boyhood and youth. His mother, Elizabeth
Moods, was likewise a native of Virginia.

  Mr. Stone has now about 1,100 acres of tilled land at Mulberry, and also a
stock farm of about 2,000 acres upon which he ranges nearly 200 head of cattle
and forty, head of horses. In politics he is a life-long Republican, a man of
sound business judgment and has the respect and esteem of the citizens of San
Benito county.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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