Walter F. Stone

Walter Freeman Stone
Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice
In office February 23, 1873 – September 10, 1874
Appointed by	Edward Follansbee Noyes
Preceded by	William H. West
Succeeded by	George Rex
Personal details
Born	(1822-11-18)November 18, 1822 Wooster, Ohio
Died	December 23, 1874(1874-12-23) (aged 52) Oakland, California
Resting place	Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Cordelia A. Hitchcock
Children	three

Walter Freeman Stone (November 18, 1822 – December 23, 1874) was a Republican politician who was a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio from 1873 to 1874.

Walter Stone was born at Wooster, Ohio. His father died when he was young, but left adequate means that Stone received an education. He studied law in Pittsburgh, where he studied under Walter H. Lowrie, who would later be Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and in Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar in 1845 in Cleveland.

In 1846, Stone moved to Sandusky, where he established partnerships with judge A. W. Hendry, and later with Ebenezer Lane, who had served on the Ohio Supreme Court for 15 years, and his son William G. Lane as Lane, Stone & Lane until 1865. He was initially a Democrat, but joined the Free Soil Party in 1849. He was elected Common Pleas Judge in 1865 and re-elected in 1870. In 1873 he was appointed by Governor Noyes to the Ohio Supreme Court when William H. West resigned. He was nominated by the Republicans, and elected to the remainder of the term in 1873, but had to resign in August 1874.

Stone married Cordelia A. Hitchcock on June 5, 1851, and they had three children. Stone retired to Oakland, California for his health, but died December 23, 1874. His funeral was January 5, 1875 in Sandusky, with burial in Oakland Cemetery in that city.

See also

• List of justices of the Ohio Supreme Court

References

• Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio. Vol. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.