Stone, Calohill E.

STONE

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 22:01:07

Calohill E. Stone

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.400)
CALOHILL E. STONE, a retired attorney. The subject of this sketch has been prominent in the building of Council Bluffs since 1853, and is probably the oldest resident of Iowa. He is a native of Botetourt County, Virginia, born January 24, 1814. He is the fourth son and seventh child of twelve children of Moses H. and Nancy (WHITTEN) STONE, who were natives of Bedford county, Virginia. The father was a son of Macajah STONE, a native of Bedford County, Virginia and of English descent. The mother was a daughter of William WHITTEN, also a native of Bedford County, Virginia, and of Welsh ancestry. When our subject was four years of age his parents moved to Kentucky and settled in Adair County, where he was reared until he was sixteen, when he removed to Sangamon County, Illinois, where his parents died, the father dying June 16, 1831 and his mother August 10, 1831.

Mr. Stone followed farming in Illinois until June 1, 1836, when he came to Fort Madison, Iowa , and engaged in the mercantile business for a short time, after which he studied law in Lee County, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. In the spring of 1837 he was drawn on the first grand jury in the Territory, but under the law of Michigan (to which Iowa then belonged) laws required grand jurors to be freeholders; and as there wan not one in the Territory, the jury was discharged as illegal. In 1844 he began the practice of his profession in Keokuk, which he followed until 1853, when he came to Council Bluffs and followed his profession successfully until 1879, when his eyesight failed him and he was obliged to abandon his profession. He was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, which he held three terms; following this he was twice elected to the office of Assessor of the city. In 1855 he was elected the first Mayor of Council Bluffs, and under his administration the city was organized. He served in this capacity for two years. He was married December 6. 1848, at Keokuk, to Miss Ann McFADDEN, a native of Terre Haute, Indiana, and a daughter of William and Eliza (LEE) McFADDEN. The former was a native of Pennsylvanian and the latter of Terre Haute. Mr. and Mrs. Stone are the parents of four children, two of whom survive. Frank died in 1880, a the age of twenty-nine, Kate, born in Council Bluffs, is the wife of A.F. MEGGS, of Portland, Oregon, and Charles E. Mrs. Stone is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically Mr.. Stone is a Democrat.