Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Stone, Welborn D. February 24, 1878 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.143  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        WELBORN D. STONE.  In reviewing the records of men of trenchant
personality who reside at Tampa, it is not difficult to see that here such
persons have not lacked desirable opportunities and that through them their
characters have been developed. In this country where progress is dependent
upon merit rather than upon any accidental advantage of birth or fortune, the
men of dominant character, pluck and ambition are those who generally succeed.
The desirable places in the learned professions are filled with, the greatest
industrial enterprise and the leading commercial undertakings are conducted by
just such men, many of whom at the outset of life, placed a just valuation upon
honor, integrity and determination, and worked accordingly. These are the
principal traits which secure the highest emoluments and greatest rewards, and
with these qualities as a capital WELBORN D. STONE entered upon his business
career, and has won for himself an enviable position among the representative 
realtors of Tampa. 
	WELBORN D. STONE was born in Taliaferro County, Georgia, February 24, 
1878, a son of W. A. and FANNIE A. (MOORE) STONE, natives of Georgia. The 
father died in 1920 at the age of sixty-nine years, but the mother survives,
and makes her home in Georgia. They had seven children, of whom WELBORN D. 
STONE was the third in order of birth.
	Growing up in his native state WELBORN D. STONE was sent to the local
schools, and began his actual contact with the business world as a clerk in a
store. In February, 1901, he came to Tampa, and for about a year was in the
employ of A. J. DRAWDY, grocer. For the subsequent two years he was with L. W.
SMITH, realtor, and then, in 1904 established himself in his present real
estate business, which he has built up to very large proportions, and is
handling city and country property, collecting rents, making investments, and
his is the most important in this line in the city.
	In 1906 Mr. Stone was married to BEATIE DARDDEN, a daughter of F. F. 
DARDDEN, of Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have two children, DORIS and HELEN. 
Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of 
the Mystic Shrine, and he also belongs to Tampa Lodge No. 708, B. P. O. E., 
Tampa Lodge No. 7, I. O. O. F., and the Maccabees. He is a man of substantial 
worth, whose judgment is sound and sagacity keen, and not many have been more 
liberally endowed with all that goes to constitute a perfectly rounded 
character. During the more than 18 years that he has been conducting his 
present business, he has maintained a high standard of business ethics, and has 
always been deeply interested in the city’s welfare. Never since coming to
Hillsborough County has his concern for the progress of this region wavered,
nor has he been remiss in doing all in his power to secure the continued
prosperity of Tampa and the county. Such men as he are rare, and when found are
highly valued for their presence insures a proper attention to wholesome
expansion, and a conservatism of natural resources.


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