Solon Buckley Stone
Lincoln County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913


Solon Buckley Stone comes of a family which has 
contributed much to the advancement of the medical 
profession and he possesses much of the skill and 
ability that have gone to make national reputations 
for his ancestors in the medical profession.  He was 
born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 26, 1859, 
and is the son of Orville Buckley and Malvina (Lincoln) 
Stone.  He is the grandson of Uriah Stone, and the great 
grandson of Professor Nathan Smith, M.D. and the founder 
of the medical department of Yale University and a 
cousin of Dr. David P. Smith, late professor of 
surgery of Yale.

Solon Buckley Stone was educated in the common and 
high schools in Massachusetts and in 1875 he 
commenced the study of medicine at Washington D.C. 
under the preceptor ship of his uncle, Professor 
Nathan Smith Lincoln, M.D. and his great uncle 
Professor Nathan R. Smith, M.D. the inventor of 
Smith's anterior splint.  He attended four courses 
of lectures at the National Medical College, 
Medical Department of the Columbian University 
at Washington and was graduated in 1879.  In 
October of the same year, Dr. Stone was 
commissioned acting assistant surgeon in the 
United States Army and was stationed at Fort 
Bowie, Arizona for two years, at Fort Maginnis 
five years and at Fort Missoula for one year, 
where he built a new military hospital and than
at Fort Shaw for a year. He then resigned from 
the army and has been a private practitioner 
since that time.  He was at Lewistown for about 
fourteen years, then located at Kalispell where 
he remained for one year.  From there he went to 
Whitefish and later to Cut Bank as division 
surgeon for the Great Northern Railway.  He then 
came to Eureka and has here continued in the 
active practice of his profession.  In addition 
to other posts which Dr. Stone has held, he was 
surgeon to the Fergus County Hospital at 
Lewistown from 1892 to 1896.  While he is a 
general practitioner he is chiefly interested 
in surgery and has performed many operations.

In 1885 D.r Stone was united in marriage with Miss 
Mary P. Sword, a niece of Colonel Parnell retired 
from the army and since deceased.  Two children were 
born: Amy Winifred, now the wife of J. Rathbuns, a 
mining engineer of Los Angeles, and Katharine Malvina, 
born at Fort Shaw, Montana and living in Eureka with 
her parents.