Person:Joshua Stone (2)

Biographical data, including a list of the children of Joshua and Abigail (Seaver) Stone, was published in the book "Biographical Review: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine," published by the Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1896. The biography of Melville C. Stone is presented on page 113. Part of it reads:

"Melville C. Stone, a citizen and native of the town of Bridgton, was born October 5, 1840, being of pioneer antecedents. His grandfather, William Stone, an early settler of this place, was a farmer by occupation. He served in the War of 1812, holding a Captain's commission. Joshua Stone, the father of Melville C., was born and lived and died in Bridgton, being for many years busily engaged in farming. He married Abigail Seaver, a daughter of Ebenezer Seaver, her father being also a soldier in the War of 1812, and a pioneer of Cumberland County, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of wild land, from which he redeemed a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Stone reared six children, namely: Melville C.; Marshall; Belle P.; Josephine, deceased; R.B. Stone, deceased; and Frankie J. Both parents rounded a full period of years, the mother passing away in 1889, and the father in 1895, on August 5, in the eighty-second year of his age."