John Temple Stone (1846-1899)

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Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

John Temple Stone was born in Dansville, New York, February 12, 1846; he died at Nevada, Iowa, April 2, 1899. His mother, then a widow, settled in Illinois about the year 1855, where he grew to manhood. He enlisted in Co. B, 34th Ilinois Infantry, February 2,1864. serving with Sherman throughout the campaign that ended in the capture of Atlanta. He was taken ill of typhoid fever just in time to miss the famous "March to the Sea." Upon his recovery he joined his regiment and participated in the closing conflicts of the Civil War. He reached Nevada in the fall of 1865 where he resided until the time of his death. In 1868, or a year or two earlier, he entered the office of The Nevada Representative, where he continued to be employed during the remainder of, his life. He became well known in Story county, where he won a high place in the esteem of all who knew him. The Representative speaks in the most complimentary terms of his high character and noble qualities. From what has been written in relation to Mr. Stone we copy the. following tribute by Hon. J. M. Bralnard of The Boone Standard: "It is not-often that a printer in Iowa spends his life in the office which he enters as an apprentice, the only other instance that I now recall being that of Mr. John Mahin, publisher of The Muscatine Journal. Mr. Stone's life has been one of faithful attention to duty as the same was presented to him day by day. It may have been uneventful but it was shorn of the restless care which marks the existence of those who are not contented to walk the 'cool sequestered vale of life.' He was always cheerful, and he was by nature kind. With kindness, cheerfulness and contentment, why may not his life be written as a successful one? How many there are who would gladly exchange all that struggle and vexation has gathered about them for this trinity at the end!"

Citation: "John Adam Kreckel, Henry E. J. Boardman, William Cowles James."The Annals of Iowa 4 (1899), 156-160.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.2400