BIO:  JOHN STONE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 848-849
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    JOHN STONE, a prosperous and representative man of Steelton, Pa., and a man
  widely known, was born in York county, Pa., Oct. 11, 1860, son of John and
  Mary Ann (Shearrer) Stone, both natives of Perry county, Pa., but of German
  descent.
 
    John Stone, Sr., was a farmer all his life, and was a well informed man,
  although his education was confined to the common schools. His death occurred
  in 1870, when he was forty-three years old; while his widow survived until
  1883, when she too passed away, aged fifty-five years. Both were very
  consistent members of the Lutheran Church. The maternal grandparents were
  John and Mary (Ernest) Shearrer, most excellent people.

    The parents of our subject had a family of seven children as follows: Katie
  married Ephraim Jumper, of Steelton; Peter, of South Middleton township,
  Cumberland county, is a farmer, and married to Mary Kutz; Annie married
  Stephen Johnson, of Huntsville, Pa.; Mary married William Rutz, of North
  Middleton township, Cumberland county; John; Harriett married Joseph Kutz, of
  Middlesex township; Sallie married Joseph Bowers, of York county.

    John Stone, Jr., was reared and educated in Cumberland county from the time
  he was two years of age, and remained with his mother until twenty-four,
  working by the month. From then until twenty-eight, he worked for neighboring
  farmers, and then engaged in butchering at Cumberland Springs. After four
  years at this line of business, Mr. Stone sold his interests, and moved to
  Steelton, where for four years more he was employed with the Harrisburg &
  Steelton Brick Company, and he then entered the shipping department of the
  Steelton Store Company. In 1900 he was made a driver of this company, and has
  thus continued.

    Fraternally, Mr. Stone is a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M., No. 928, Melrose
  Council; and the Modern Workmen, No. 5929.
 
    On Jan. 3, 1889, Mr. Stone married Miss Annie M. Kutz, daughter of Joseph
  H. and Elizabeth (Keihl) Kutz, and they have two children deceased, and one
  living, namely: Albert W., who died at the age of seven years and twelve
  days; a daughter that died in infancy; and Ira J., born Sept. 17, 1893. Both
  Mr. and Mrs. Stone are members of St. John Lutheran Church, in which Mrs.
  Stone is very active, she now being president of the Ladies' Sewing Circle; a
  member of the Ready Helpers, and also a member

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  of the Missionary Society. Mr. and Mrs. Stone are popular in the church,
  and socially have many friends in this portion of the county.