From: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 3:37 PM
To: Ky-Footsteps
Subject: Stone.Henry.Lane.1842.Bath-Jefferson-Montgomery.BIOS


Henry Lane Stone January 17 1842 - 
Bath-Jefferson-Montgomery County KyArchives Biography

Author: Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin

HENRY LANE STONE, a member of the Louisville bar since 1885, was born in Bath 
county, Kentucky, near Sharpsburg, January 17, 1842, and is a representative 
of prominent old families of Virginia and of this state. Of English origin, 
the Stone family was founded in America by Josiah Stone, who sailed from 
England as a cabin-boy in the early part of the eighteenth century and went to 
Prince William county, Virginia. He was reared by a wealthy lady who at her 
death bequeathed to him a considerable estate. Valentine Stone, the third son 
of Josiah, was a solider of the Revolution. In 1790 he removed to Kentucky,
settling near Boonesboro, in Madison county, whence in 1799 he removed to
Bath county. General Samuel Stone, son of Valentine and the father of our
subject, was then only two years of age. He was born in Madison county,
December 26, 1797, and liberally educated. At an early age he entered
political life as a follower of Jefferson and Jackson, and four times
represented Bath county in the state legislature, being elected in 1824,
1827, 1833 and 1836. From 1823 to 1841 he was a magistrate of Bath county,
and in the latter year became sheriff. From 1816 to 1846 he was connected
with the Kentucky state militia, and rose from the rank of ensign to that
of brigadier-general, in which capacity he served for ten years. In
October, 1851, he removed with his family to Putnam county, Indiana, where
he engaged in farming and lived a retired life. He died in his
seventy-sixth year, near Bainbridge, Indiana, January 11, 1873, and was
buried with Masonic honors, having been a member of the order for over
fifty years. He married Sally Lane, who was born in Montgomery county,
Kentucky, March 15, 1816, and is now (1897) living with her son, Henry L.
She was the youngest daughter of Colonel James Hardage Lane, who built the
first house in Montgomery county, and is a sister of the late Hon. Henry S.
Lane, the first Republican governor of Indiana, and subsequently United
States senator from that state. Henry Lane Stone began his education in his
native county, but when nine years of age accompanied his parents on their
removal to Indiana, where he attended the common schools and was also a
student in an academy in Bainbridge. At the age of seventeen he began
teaching and through a period of three years taught nineteen months, at
different places in the northern part of Putnam county. In the winter of
1861-2 he was employed as a teacher in Bainbridge, and in the meantime he
spent the winter of 1859-60 as a student in the law school in Indianapolis.
After reading law for two years, when not engaged in teaching, and spending
some time in the office of a distinguished judge and lawyer of Greencastle,
Indiana, he was admitted to the bar, in May, 1862, and took the oath as a
practicing attorney at law in the Putnam circuit court, when he was but
twenty years of age! The civil war, however, interrupted his professional
labors. The Stone family was divided at that time, three of the brothers
being soldiers in the Union army, while Henry L. and his father were
adherents of the southern cause; and in September, 1862, the former entered
the Confederate army, joining Company D. of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry,
which formed a part of General Morgan's command. He was on the celebrated
raid into Kentucky in December, 1862 when a large portion of an Indiana
regiment was captured, many of whom had been old friends and acquaintances
of his in Putnam county. He was also on the famous Morgan raid into Indiana
and Ohio, being with the advance guard commanded by Captain Thomas H.
Hines. Being captured he was confined in Camp Morton, at Indianapolis, for
a month, after which he was sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago, whence he
succeeded in making his escape October 16, 1863. He made his way back to
Bath county, where he was again captured in November, 1863, at the house in
which he was born. After remaining in the Mt. Sterling jail for two weeks
he was started with other prisoners for Lexington, but in the night, at
Winchester, he again made his escape. Finding it impossible to reach the
Confederate lines, he went to Canada, where he remained four months, but
returned to Kentucky and again joined the army. At the close of the war May
9, 1865, he was paroled at Augusta, Georgia, and returned to Bath county,
Kentucky. From July until November, 1865, he clerked in a dry-goods store
at Ragland's Mill, on Licking river, occupying his spare time in reviewing
his legal studies. After a short service as a salesman in a drug store at
Owingsville, he began the practice of law there, January 1, 1866. In August
of that year he was elected as a Democrat to the office of county attorney
of Bath county, serving for four years. He formed a partnership for the
practice of law with Hon. Newton P. Reid, formerly circuit judge of that
district, in August, 1870, a relation that was maintained until 1875. In
1872 he was the Democratic elector for his congressional district. In
August 1873, he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the state
legislature from the district composed of Bath and Menifee counties, and
served on several important committees. In 1876 he was active in the
campaign in support of Tilden and Hendricks and was again chosen elector
from his district. For twelve years Mr. Stone continued a successful and
prominent legal practitioner at the Owingsville bar and then removed to Mt.
Sterling where he entered into partnership with Hon. Richard Reid, which
was continued until the election of Judge Reid to the bench of the superior
court in August, 1882. Since April, 1885, Mr. Stone has been a member of
the Louisville bar, and in August 1889, formed the present partnership with
Watson Andrews Sudduth. Their practice is extensive, their reputation
enviable, and they are recognized as leading members of the Louisville bar.
In November, 1896, he was elected city attorney of Louisville for a term of
four years. Of late years Mr. Stone has taken no active part in politics,
preferring to devote his energies to the law, in every department of which
he has acquitted himself ably and creditably under all circumstances. He is
especially distinguished for his comprehensive knowledge of the principles
of jurisprudence, his sound and logical reasoning, both in pleadings and
arguments, his capacity for research and investigation, his accurate
judgments and judicious counsels. On the 21st of February, 1866, Mr. Stone
was married in Montgomery county, Kentucky, to Pamela Lane Bourne. They
have two children, May and Junius. For ten years Mr. Stone has been a
member of the First Christian church of Louisville. 


Submitted by: Sandi Gorin
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404



This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/