California Biographies, Kern County
JAMES EDGAR STONE

History of Kern 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.

Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company, 1914
History by Morgan, Wallace Melvin

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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JAMES EDGAR STONE.— The Kimball-Stone Drug Company ranks 
among the leading business concerns of Bakersfield. The present organi- 
zation, which dates from 190-1. has been engaged in business since 1910 at 
No. 1413 Nineteenth street, where the first floor is utilized for the various 
departments of the trade and in addition the basement furnishes storage 
facilities for a large reserve stock. The modern stock of the company, 
valued at $25, COO, includes everything known to the science of medicine. 
The firm carries a full line of pure drugs and druggists' sundries, patent 
medicines of all kinds, toilet articles, perfumes, brushes and other articles 
to be found in a first-class shop of the kind. The compounding of prescrip- 
tions is a special feature of the business. For that purpose the freshest and 
purest of drugs are kept in stock. The prescription counter, unsurpassed 
by any in the state, is open to the public view by means of plate glass. The 
entire store is a model of neatness and system and indicates the thrifty 
qualities of the proprietors, whose skill as pharmacists is attested by their 
high reputation throughout the community. 

The junior member of the firm, James Edgar Stone, was born at War- 
rensburg, Mo., July 23, 1881, and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Emery) 
Stone, natives respectively of Kentucky and Indiana, and early settlers of 
Missouri, where they were married and where they since have made their 
home. The father has engaged in raising live stock and still makes a 
specialty of handling live-stock, through which occupation, coupled with 
general farming, he has been enabled to reach financial success. In his 
family there are six children, the eldest of whom, Nellie Alay, is the wife of 
W. L. Hyer, an employe of a large packing house at Warrensburg, Mo. 
The eldest son, John William, Jr., is engaged in the drug business in Kansas 
City. The third and sixth among the children, Josephine B. and Pansy K., 
are teachers in the Bakersfield public schools. The fifth, Luther Brooks, 
is engaged in the stock business with his father. James Edgar, the fourth 
in order of birth, received his education in Warrensburg, where for three 
years he was a student in the Missouri State Normal, after he had com- 
pleted the regular course in the public schools. 

At the age of twenty-one years Air. Stone matriculated in the St. Louis 
College of Pharmacy, where for two years he studied with industry, diligence 
and intelligence. At the expiration of that time he was graduated with the 
degree of Ph. G., as a member of the class of 1904, in which he had the honor 
of serving as vice-president. During the autumn of the same year he came 
to Bakersfield and purchased the interest of Dr. B. E. Morrow in the Mor- 
row-Kimball Drug- Company, the predecessor of the Kimball-Stone Drug 
Company. After some years at the old stand the firm removed in 1910 to 
their present location, where they have a modern and model shop, equipped 
with every facility and improvement designed to render the business satis- 
factory and successful. Customers are treated with the most gracious cour- 
tesy and are given every possible attention. The Johnson line of remedies 
and toilet articles is prepared at the manufacturing table, back of which is 
a room for reserve stock and in the basement a large reserve stock also is 
maintained. The firm makes a specialty of poisoned wheat manufactured 
for the extermination of squirrels and gophers. Their stock of Parke-Davis 
goods is the largest in the San Joaquin valley. Among their bacteriological 
serums is Dr. Schaeffer's phylacogeus, manufactured by a Bakersfield physi- 
cian and already having to its credit many astonishing cures. 

The marriage of Mr. Stone took place in Kern county and united him 
with Miss Mae Mouliot, daughter of Martin Mouliot, a stockman now resid- 
ing in Bakersfield. Born at Tehachapi, Mrs. Stone received her early edu- 
cation in the Bakersfield schools and later completed a course of study in the 
Chico State Normal. For three years prior to her marriage she taught in 
the schools of East Bakersfield with gratifying success. Politically Mr. 
Stone has been stanch in his allegiance to the Democratic party, and has 
maintained a warm interest in public affairs. Since coming to Bakersfield 
he has been active in Masonry, and is now a Shriner of the York Rite. 
Personally he is decidedly popular with everyone with Whom he has busi- 
ness dealings or social relations.