Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Stone, David T. October 28, 1856 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The Union Banking and Trust Company of Grand Junction, which is the first

trust company formed on the Western slope, enjoys in a marked degree the

confidence of the people of the section, and by its steady progress and

enlargement in the volume of business justifies this confidence in full measure.

 It owes much of its success and popularity to the excellent management it has

had under its efficient and accomplished cashier, David T. Stone, who is one of

the principal stockholders of the institution and deeply interested in its

welfare.  This company was organized in May, 1903, and incorporated on the 22nd

day of the month with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars.  Its officers

are G. Van Hoorebeke, president; William E. Dudley, vice-president, and David T.

Stone, cashier.  It began business on September 14, 1903, and a statement of its

affairs to the close of business on December 28th, following, showed deposits

amounting to $56,441.04, loans and discounts aggregating $57,637.68, and cash on

hand in the sum of $42,314.03.  This for a business covering only three months

is an unusually creditable record even in a country rich in prosperity and

enterprise .  Mr. Stone was born in Platte county, Missouri, on October 28,

1856, and is the son of Thomas F. and Mary A. (Flannagan) Stone, the former a

native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and the latter born in England.  She came to

the United States and settled in Kentucky with her parents in childhood. Mr.

Stone’s father was a farmer and stock-grower, and well known in western Missouri

as a breeder of superior Shorthorn cattle, having removed to that state in 1848.

 He is now deceased, but the mother is still living in Missouri.  The oldest son

of the family, formerly a state senator from St. Louis, is at present practicing

law in Kansas City.  This branch of the Stone family came from Virginia, where

it was domesticated for many generations, its American progenitors having

settled there in Colonial times, and are supposed to be descendants of Thomas

Stone, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.  In the immediate

family of Mr. Stone there were seven children, of whom he was the fourth born. 

He grew to manhood on the home farm in his native state, and received a good

district-school education, afterward entering the Christian Brothers College at

St. Louis, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1881.

 He then taught school near his home one year, and in 1882 came to Colorado, and

at Del Norte passed the next four years in teaching at the Boulevard school,

being first assistant three years of the time and principal of the school one. 

In 1886 he moved to Grand Junction, and for three years served as principal of

the school there, at the end of which time he was elected county superintendent,

serving one term of two years.  He then entered the Mesa County State Bank and

soon became assistant cashier, holding the position thirteen years, at the end

of which time he resigned and helped to organize the institution of which he is

now cashier.  This has flourished and grown, as has been noted, his personal

character, business capacity, long residence and educational services in the

community being potential factors in making it so successful.  He aided in

organizing the first teachers’ institute of the twelfth normal district at

Montrose in 1888, and was one of its instructors, and was also an instructor in

the institute at Ouray in 1899.  In addition he organized the Mesa County

Teachers’ Institute during the first year of his tenure as county

superintendent.  For a number of years he was director in the Grand Junction

Building, Loan and Savings Association, of which he was also an original

stockholder.  In 1894 he was appointed clerk of the district court and held the

office a year and a half.  In politics he has always been a Democrat, loyal to

his party and promoting its interests by his zeal and fidelity in every proper

way, serving on the senatorial and state committee in its organization, and by

his personal influence and efforts aiding in securing the success of its

principles and candidates.  On November 17, 1892, he was married at Kansas City,

Missouri, to Miss Caroline L. Baker, a native of Lindsay, in the province of

Ontario, Canada, the daughter of C.L. Baker, a prosperous merchant of that city.

 Mr. and Mrs. Stone have two children, their daughter Genevieve, now ten years

old, and their son David F., aged three.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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