Eben Francis Stone | |
Image Name: | Eben Francis Stone CDV by John Adams Whipple, 1862.jpg |
Caption: | Stone in 1862 |
Office1: | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1881 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1887 |
Predecessor1: | George B. Loring |
Successor1: | William Cogswell |
Constituency1: | (1881–83) (1883–87) |
Order2: | Chairperson of the Massachusetts Republican Party |
Term Start2: | 1879 |
Term End2: | 1880 |
Predecessor2: | Adin Thayer |
Successor2: | Charles A. Stott |
Title3: | 11th Mayor of Newburyport |
Term Start3: | 1867 |
Term End3: | 1867 |
Predecessor3: | William Graves |
Successor3: | Nathaniel Pierce |
Title4: | Member of the Massachusetts State Senate for the 4th Essex district |
Term Start4: | 1857 |
Term End4: | 1858 |
Term Start5: | 1861 |
Term End5: | 1861 |
Title6: | President of the Newburyport Common Council |
Term Start6: | June 24, 1851 |
Term End6: | January, 1852 |
Predecessor6: | New office |
Title7: | Member of the Newburyport Common Council for Ward 4 |
Term Start7: | June 16, 1851 |
Term End7: | January, 1852 |
Predecessor7: | New office |
Birth Date: | August 3, 1822 |
Birth Place: | Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA |
Death Place: | Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA |
Restingplace: | Oak Hill Cometary |
Spouse: | Harriet Perrin, (d. December 31, 1889) |
Profession: | Attorney |
Party: | Republican |
Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
Children: | Frances (Fanny) Coolidge Stone |
Allegiance: | United States of America Union |
Branch: | Union Army |
Serviceyears: | 1862 – September 3, 1863 |
Rank: | Colonel |
Commands: | 48th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment |
Battles: | American Civil War |
Eben Francis Stone (August 3, 1822 – January 22, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1881 to 1887.
Stone was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Ebenezer and Fanny (Coolidge) Stone.
Stone attended North Andover Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1843 and from Harvard Law School in 1846.He was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
He served as president of the common council in 1851.
He served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1857, 1858, and 1861.Stone enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, and commanded the 48th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.Stone served as the eleventh mayor of Newburyport in 1867.Stone served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1867, 1877, 1878, and 1880.
Stone was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886.
He resumed the practice of law in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he died January 22, 1895.Stone was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.