WI BIO - Dane Co - STONE, James B.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol I, pp 206-207

James B. STONE, one of the most influential citizens of Fitchburg Township, 
Dane County, Wisconsin, was born on the Isle of Wight, 27 March 1826. His 
father, Jonathan STONE, was a native of the same place, where he was reared, 
married, and resided until 1851, when he emigrated to the States, remaining 
in New York for a short time, but finally emigrating to Wisconsin, where he 
located in Fitchburg Township. Here the good man spent the remainder of his 
days in peace and comfort. The maiden name of his [Jonathan STONE's] wife 
was Harriet DORE, also a native of the Isle of Wight. She [Harriet (DORE) 
STONE] died in Fitchburg Township, after rearing a family of eight children: 
Maria, Jacob, Charlotte, Eliza, James, Ann, John, and George.

Our subject [James B. STONE] was reared on a farm and remained with his 
parents until his sixteenth year, when he resolved to leave the land of his 
birth and seek wider fields, accordingly in February 1842, he set sail from 
Portsmouth on a sailing vessel and landed in New York after a voyage of six 
weeks and five days. It was a lonely time for the boy, alone [p 207] in a 
strange land. He made his way to Ontario County [NY], and there hired out on 
a farm for $20 for six months, but his employer cheated him out of the most 
of his wages. He [James B. STONE] remained in Ontario County nearly a year, 
and then went to Seneca [Seneca County, New York], where he was employed in a 
soap and candle factory in the village of Waterloo. He remained there until 
1846, and then went to Wisconsin, going via the railroad to Rochester [Monroe 
County, New York], via lakes to Racine [Racine County, Wisconsin], and then 
engaged on a farm for the summer and chopped wood in winter, remaining in 
Racine until 1852, when he removed to Dane County [Wisconsin]. He [James B. 
STONE] had made preparations for locating there by buying forty acres of land 
and remained there until February 1853, when he went to Fitchburg Township 
[Dane County, Wisconsin], where he bought sixty acres of land, which is 
included in his present farm. This was university land and he paid $7 per 
acre for it. He immediately began improving it, built a house, has since 
bought other land, and now has 237 acres, twelve of which is in timber.

In 1859 he [James B. STONE] was married to Miss Emma DORE, a native of New 
Haven [New Haven County], Connecticut, a daughter of David DORE, a native of 
the Isle of Wight. [David DORE related to James B. STONE's mother, Harriet 
nee DORE?] To this union two children have been born, Homer A. and James D. 
Mr. STONE is independent in politics. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly