Dr. Ebenezer Stone

1797 - 1869  (71 years)

• Name	Ebenezer Stone  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	10 Oct 1797	Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Aug 1869	Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I22968	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Silas Stone,   b. 5 Apr 1755, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 12 Jul 1820, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Jennet Twitchell,   b. 5 Nov 1760, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 13 Jun 1816, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	9 Jan 1781	Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Family ID	F13832	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Holbrook Hawes,   b. 10 May 1809, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 18 Aug 1860, Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	23 Nov 1831	Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. William Eben Stone,   b. 27 Nov 1845, Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 23 Feb 1921, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F13831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  From Gregory Stone Genealogy (citation details below): In early life [he] exhibited natural capacity and desire for learning, and after preparatory study under Rev. Joseph Wheaton of Holliston and Rev. Charles Train of Framingham, he was admitted to Brown University where he graduated A.B. in 1820 and A.M. in 1822. He then took up medical studies under Dr. John B. Kittredge of Framingham, completing them at the Harvard Medical School where he received the degree of M.D. in 1824. Soon afterwards he settled in Walpole, Mass., where he practiced his profession over forty years, until within a short time of his decease, 13 Aug. 1869, in his seventy-second year. Dr. Stone was a skilful, successful, and popular family physician, and obtained an extensive practice in Walpole and the surrounding towns; and his high character, abilities, geniality, and sympathetic disposition secured for him the confidence, esteem, and affection of a large circle of patients. While assiduously and faithfully devoted to the duties of his profession, he was also much interested in education, labored for the improvement of the schools, and was one of the earliest open advocates of temperance during the first agitation on this subject in Massachusetts about 1830. He was a man of calm judgment, firm convictions, and scholarly tastes. In politics he was long a conservative adherent of the Whig party, and in religion was a consistent member of the Unitarian church and a constant attendant at its public worship. For some years he was a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society and president of the Norfolk District Medical Society.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2959] Arthur Wilmot Ackerman and Harold Clark Durrell, "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83:330, Jul 1929. [S2960] J. Gardner Bartlett, "William Eben Stone, Ph.B." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 76:83, Apr 1922. [S1809] Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston: Stone Family Association, 1918. [S3036] Richard Hawes of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants by Frank Mortimer Hawes. Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1932. [S3036] Richard Hawes of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants by Frank Mortimer Hawes. Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1932., date only.