California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


SOLOMON C. STONE.� The Stone family comes of southern ancestry. 
The first of the name in America was identified with Virginia, but later gener- 
ations lived in Tennessee. James C. and Elizabeth (Carmichael) Stone were 
natives of White county, Tenn., and their son, Solomon C, was born in the 
some county October 5, 1862. During 1869 the family came to California and 
settled in Sonoma county, but removed during 1873 to Lake county and secured 
land near Kelseyville. The mother died at forty-eight and the father when 
seventy-seven years of age. There were seven children in the parental family, 
namely: John H. and Thomas B., who are fruit-growers in Sonoma county; 
William A., who is engaged in farming in Klamath county. Ore. ; Solomon 
C, whose name introduces this article and whose place of residence is in 
Lake county ; Margaret C, Mrs. Johnston, of Ontario, Cal. ; Beatrice, wife of 
Joe Johnston, also of Ontario ; and Mary L., who died at fifteen years of age. 

When seven years old Solomon C. Stone came with his parents from 
Tennessee to California, making the eventful trip on the Union Pacific Rail- 
road shortly after it had been completed. For a few years he attended school 
in Sonoma county and later was a pupil in Lake county, where after he had 
left school he took up general farming. At the age of twenty-five he married 
Miss Cora L. Arnold, daughter of Speed and Rebecca J. (Yates) Arnold, who 
brought their family from Missouri at the time the daughter was only seven 
weeks old. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have lost one child and have one daughter 
now living and two sons, namely : Bernice, a graduate of the San Jose State 
Normal School and now a teacher in Los Angeles ; Donald Roy, proprietor 
of a general store at Kelseyville ; and Willard Carroll, a student in the Clear 
Lake Union high school at Lakeport. In connection with farming j\Ir. Stone 
ran a meat market for fifteen years (1887-1902) and after acquiring a tract of 
one hundred and seventy acres (twenty of which were in hops) he sold one 
hundred and twenty acres to the Yolo Water and Power Company. By a 
subsequent purchase of twenty acres he now owns seventy acres in the North 
Kelseyville precinct No. 2. Thirty-five acres have been put into alfalfa. One 
of his specialties is the raising of thoroughbred white leghorn poultry, and 
he now has seven hundred hens of that splendid breed on his farm. From 
the time of casting his first ballot he has voted with the Democratic party. 
Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at 
Kelseyville and has been through all the chairs in the lodge.