BIO:  Cicero W. STONER, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 372-373

CICERO W. STONER, clerk of the courts of Adams County, Gettysburg, was born in 
East Berlin, Hamilton Township, Adams Co., Penn., October 20, 1846, a son of A. 
K. and Catherine B. (Woods) Stoner, natives of Pennsylvania, and of English and 
German origin.  A. K. Stoner, a manufacturer and dealer in stoves and tinware, 
was the father of eleven children, five of whom are still living.  Of the 
children living, C. W., clerk of the court of Adams County, is the eldest; the 
others being, respectively, Newton W., proprietor of the “Howard House,” York 
Springs, Penn.; Dr. George W., chief of the Purveying and Quarantine Division, 
Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.; Ida J., wife of Capt. L. Y. Diller, 
of East Berlin, Penn.; and Dr. James B., of Philadelphia, Penn.  Our subject 
grew to manhood in the borough of East Berlin; attended the schools at that 
place, and, later the Normal and Classical Institute at York, Penn., and at the 
age of seventeen years commenced teaching school, a vocation he had a taste for 
and decided to follow.  He taught for several years in Adams, Cumberland, and 
York Counties, Penn., and in the State of Illinois, meeting with success, which 
occupation, with that of clerking, he pursued until 1883.  He was elected 
auditor and assistant assessor in his native borough for several successive 
terms, and was secretary of the town council, and financial secretary of Camp 
21, P. O. S. of A., when in 1884 he was elected clerk of the courts of Adams 
County, which office he still holds.  In 1874 Mr. Stoner was married to M. 
Louisa Spangler, of East Berlin, and to them two children, Ira E. and Harvey M., 
were born.  Mrs. Stoner died in 1877, and Mr. Stoner was married, in 1880, to 
Miss Sally P. Frey, a daughter of George Frey, of Gettysburg.  She died in 1882, 
leaving a son, Norman F., who died when six months old.  Mr. Stoner and his two 
sons are at present residing in Gettysburg.