All Sorts of Pittsburgers, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, 1892
William Stone Biography
HON. WILLIAM A. STONE, who represents the twenty-third district (Allegheny City) in the lower house of Congress, was born in Delmar township, Tioga county, Pa., in April, 1846, and received a common school education. When the war broke out, he enlisted as a private in Company A., 187th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was subsequently promoted to a lieutenancy. On his return from the army he resumed his studies, and in 1868 graduated from a state normal school. He then studied law with Stephen S. Wilson and J. B. Niles, in Tioga county. In September, 1870, he was admitted to the bar and entered upon a profitable practice in the civil courts.
Colonel Stone has been District Attorney of Tioga, county, and served as U. S. District Attorney for Western Pennsylvania under the Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and Cleveland administrations:
In 1890, when Congressman Bayne was nominated for re-election to Congress, he requested the Convention to transfer the nomination to Colonel Stone, and the recommendation was adopted. As considerable adverse criticism was aroused by this proceeding, Colonel Stone announced himself as a candidate on his own merits. New primaries were called and a new convention held, and the result was that Colonel Stone carried off the palm of victory, in the face of spirited opposition from the friends of George Shiras III.
It is too early as yet to estimate Colonel Stone's powers as a statesman, but it may be truthfully said that he gives evidence, at the outset of his Congressional career, of a determination to serve his constituency with sedulous fidelity.
Source: All Sorts of Pittsburgers Sketched in Prose and Verse; Burgoyne, Arthur; Pittsburg, PA; The Leader; 1892.
Note: The correct spelling of Pittsburgh in 1892 was Pittsburg. The spelling Pittsburgh was officially restored in 1911.
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