1845-1899
Adoniram Judson Stone
Farmer/Public Servant NH/VT
I am grateful the research of Andy Osterdahl at the blogspot “Political Strange Names” for thus summary on Mr. Stone and the image he graciously shared.
Adoniram J. Stone was born in the town of Cornish, New Hampshire on October 13, 1845, the son of Erastus and Lucy Burr Stone. He received his schooling in New Hampshire and is recorded as having relocated to Vermont in the early 1860s. Shortly after his resettlement Stone signed on for military service in Montpelier, joining Co. H of the 6th Vermont Volunteers in August 1861. He is listed by the Gazetteer of Washington County, VT as being mustered into service in October of that year and served his term of enlistment, leaving the service in March 1862. Stone later re-enlisted in Co. H’s 13th Vermont Volunteers and served another term of duty until his discharge.
After returning home Adoniram Stone married in the village of Bethel on March 8, 1865, to Mary Elizabeth Hardy, with whom he would have three children: Arthur Wilbur (born 1866), Fred Adoniram (born 1875), and Lucy (born 1881). The Gazetteer notes that Adoniram was a farmer, notary public, lister, and town auditor for Worcester and in 1882 won election as first selectman for that town. Sources of the time also recorded him as being a parishioner in the Unitarian church.
In 1883 Stone was named as second selectman for Bethel, and his prominence in that town eventually culminated in his being elected to the Vermont State House of Representatives in November 1887. His term of service lasted from 1888-1890…. A burial location for Stone is also unknown at this time. A rare portrait of Adoniram J. Stone appeared in the Pictorial History of the Thirteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, originally published in 1910.[1]
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[1] https://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/2012/05/