Warren County NJ Archives Obituaries.....STONE, William Leete June 11, 1908
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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 1, New Series, 1916, Page 101.

  WILLIAM LEETE STONE, a well known historian and editor, died at Mont Vernon, 
N. J., on June 11, 1908, at the age of seventy-three years.  He was a 
descendant of William Leete, a Colonial Governor of Connecticut.  His father 
was editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1822 until the time of 
his death in 1844, and his grand-uncle was the Rev. Francis Wayland, a 
president of Brown University.  Mr. Stone graduated from Brown University in 
1858, and, after some time spent in Germany in translating historic journals, 
he attended the Albany Law School and practiced in Saratoga until 1863.  In 
1859 he married Miss Harriet D. Gillette, of Cleveland.  In 1869 he returned 
to his birthplace, New York City, and was editor of the Journal of Commerce 
for several years.  He was the author of numerous historical works pertaining 
to Revolutionary days.  He was survived by his widow and four children : 
William M. Stone, Arthur Douglas Stone, Francis Wayland Stone and Miss Susanne 
M. Stone.  He was elected a corresponding member of this Society in 1899.

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