Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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W. T. STONE. � W. T. Stone, the experienced superintendent of. the 
Harper ranch of eighty acres, owned by S. D. Harper of Fresno and situated 
one mile west of Del Rev, was born at Wellsville, Montgomery County-, 
Mo., on October 30, 1876. 'He is the son of Z. J. Stone, a well-to-do farmer, 
and Mary ( McCollough) Stone, who died when our subject was only two 
years old, leaving besides him two other children, an older and a younger 
sister; but he is" the only one now living. His father married again, and 
there are six half-brothers and half-sisters. 

W. T. Stone was brought up on his father�s farm in Missouri, and 
attended the district schools. At the age of twenty-two he was married to 
Miss josie Menz, also a native of Missouri. He had decided on coming to 
California, but after his marriage he remained in Missouri long enough to 
raise two good crops on his father-in-law's farm before he said adieu to his 
native state and journeyed westward. Arriving in Sanger, Fresno County, 
on March 1. 1901. with his young wife and baby girl, he went to work in 
the Sanger Lumber Company's planing mill, and for nine years he con- 
tinued in the employ of that company. In 1910 he left the mill and entered 
the service of M. D. Harper, with whom he continued for three years. For 
the past five years, he has had charge of the S. D. Harper place, and has 
been responsible for the direction of from one to thirty men in their work. 
The eighty acres are devoted to muscat and Thompson Seedless grapes, as 
well as to about twelve acres of peaches. The land is in a high state of 
cultivation and under the liberal policy and enterprise of its owner, who 
resides in Fresno, and the expert management of Mr. Stone, the Harper 
ranch has become a source of pride and civic satisfaction to the community, 
whose prosperity it in part represents. 

Three children have blessed the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Stone, and added 
to the charm of their home-circle: Mary Nellie, who is a graduate of the 
high school at Sanger and now attends the Fresno Normal: and William 
Joseph and Dora May, who are still at home. Mr. Stone belongs to the 
Modern Woodmen of America. Mrs. Stone is a member of the Royal Neigh- 
bors, and of the Methodist Church at Del Rey.