William Milo Stone

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1827-10-14

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1893-07-18

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"William Milo Stone" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020428, (accessed July 3, 2025).

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Sixth governor of Iowa, attorney, newspaper editor, judge, and soldier. Jefferson County, New York, native. Son of Truman F. Stone and Lavina North Stone. Married to Caroline M. Mathews Stone in 1858. Father of William Stone. Chairmaker in Coschocton County, Ohio, in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1851. Attorney in Marion County, Iowa, in 1854. Editor of The Knoxville Journal in Marion County in 1855. Presidential elector for the Republican Party from Iowa in 1856. District judge in Marion County in 1860. Served in the 3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and major from June 8, 1861, to September 9, 1862. Captured at the Battle of Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee, in April 1862. Served in the 22nd Iowa Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from September 9, 1862, to August 13, 1863. Republican Governor of the State of Iowa from January 14, 1864, to January 16, 1868. Appointed brevet brigadier general of volunteers on March 13, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Coshocton County, Coshocton, pp. 126A-B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Iowa, Marion County, Knoxville, p. 19.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Iowa, Marion County, Knoxville Township, p. 72A.
"Death of Governor Stone," The Oklahoma Times Journal (Oklahoma City, OT), July 19, 1893, p. 1.
"Passed away in Oklahoma," The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, IA), July 19, 1893, p. 1.
Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, vol. IV (New York City: The Century History Company, 1903), 253.
Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 930.
Dexter North, John North of Farmington Connecticut and His Descendants: With a Short Account of Other Early North Families (Washington, D.C.: 1921), 62.

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