William G. Stone was born in Foster, and received, in common with the boys of that age, the educational opportunities of Rhode Island schools, we cannot say Free Schools, for in those days all were private schools throughout the State. Such schools as that age of Rhode Island afforded, he enjoyed, and improved them to the best advantage. In early life he was chosen captain of a company of Cadets, and when a young man appointed a Justice of the Peace, which office he held for more than twenty years, issuing more writs, and conducting more trials, than all the other Justices in the town ;-he was chosen, from time to time, to fill every important town office; was three years a Representative in the State Legislature, and three years a member of the State Senate. He has carefully studied the political history of our country, and with a clear head and loyal heart, plants himself on the topstone of American Liberty. When Rhode Island threw aside the old Charter of Charles II., under which she had lived so long, and sought an embodiment of Republican Freedom in a State Constitution, the Hon. Wm. G. Stone was chosen a member of the Convention which formed the present Constitution, that well arranged and satisfactory disposition of executive, judicial and legislative power, under which the little State has become great. He resides in North Foster, near the Baptist church, which he has done much to build up and sustain; a church which is now, and has been for fifty years, under the care of the venerable and Rev. Daniel Williams, a descendant in the sixth generation of Roger Williams. William G. Stone. married Miss Elcie Hopkins, of Foster, they have but one surviving child.
William G. Stone was born in Foster, and received, in common with the boys of that age, the educational opportunities of Rhode Island schools, we cannot say Free Schools, for in those days all were private schools throughout the State. Such schools as that age of Rhode Island afforded, he enjoyed, and improved them to the best advantage. In early life he was chosen captain of a company of Cadets, and when a young man appointed a Justice of the Peace, which office he held for more than twenty years, issuing more writs, and conducting more trials, than all the other Justices in the town ;-he was chosen, from time to time, to fill every important town office; was three years a Representative in the State Legislature, and three years a member of the State Senate. He has carefully studied the political history of our country, and with a clear head and loyal heart, plants himself on the topstone of American Liberty. When Rhode Island threw aside the old Charter of Charles II., under which she had lived so long, and sought an embodiment of Republican Freedom in a State Constitution, the Hon. Wm. G. Stone was chosen a member of the Convention which formed the present Constitution, that well arranged and satisfactory disposition of executive, judicial and legislative power, under which the little State has become great. He resides in North Foster, near the Baptist church, which he has done much to build up and sustain; a church which is now, and has been for fifty years, under the care of the venerable and Rev. Daniel Williams, a descendant in the sixth generation of Roger Williams. William G. Stone. married Miss Elcie Hopkins, of Foster, they have but one surviving child.
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