Stoneman, John T. 1831-1905

STONEMAN, CHAPIN

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 4/13/2013 at 14:58:07

Postville Review, Fri., 20 October 1905. Parts taken from the McGregor Times, and Waukon Journal.

Last Thursday's McGregor Times says, "John T. Stoneman died last night at 5 o'clock, at the residence of A. Chapin." In the 60's and early 70's Hon. John T. Stoneman was one of Iowa's leading democrats, says the Waukon Journal. He represented Clayton county in the state legislature, and if we are not mistaken was at one time the democratic candidate for congress in this district. He was one of the original owners of the Iowa site of Postville. Later he moved to Cedar Rapids and was no more heard of in politics. He was an able and eloquent man and will doubtless be remembered by our older citizens.

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Note: WPA records show a John T. Stoneman buried in Pleasant Grove cemetery, McGregor, Iowa.
Submitter is not related.

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Added by Joy Moore 12/31/2018:

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Oct. 17, 1905, LP, C5

OBITUARY,

STONEMAN.

John T. Stoneman died October 11, 1905, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A, Chapin, at McGregor, Iowa.

He was born February 14, 1831, in Chautauqua county, N. Y. He grad­uated from Williams college in 1859, and in October of that year settled in McGregor, having been admitted to the bar in Albany, N. Y., in 1855. He practiced law in McGregor until 1891, when be removed to Cedar Rapids and engaged in the same profession there until he was elected as Judge of the Superior Court of that city, which office he held for two terms. Mr. Stoneman was an able lawyer and most excellent judge. At the bar of the State he took a prominent place. He was an eloquent speaker. He serv­ed one term in the State Senate and was a candidate for congress on the Democratic ticket twice. Mrs. Stone­man preceeded him to the other shore November 13, 1902.