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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Samuel Stone

Mr. Samuel Stone was born in Exeter in 1842, and was educated in Birmingham. There also he learned his business, and was in leading establishments at that city for almost nine years. In 1864, he came to the Colony, by the ship “Portland,” and landed in Anckland, with his employer, the late Mr. Thomas Forgham, of Birmingham, but soon left Auckland, and was in the south for a quarter of a century, during which he was in business successively at Napier, Wellington, Lower Hutt and Nelson. Mr. D. Curle, formerly of Wellington and Hokitika, and now proprietor of the “Bush Advocate” at Dannevirke, is a brother-in-law, and Mr. S. Dawes the present proprietor of the “Hokitika Guardian,” is a nephew of Mr. Stone's. Mr. Stone was the first hand employed by the now noted firm of Messrs R. Hannah and Co., Wellington. In conjunction with the Wesleyan church, Mr. Stone has been an earnest worker privately, and for some time professionally, in Otago and Nelson, and on the West Coast, and is respected throughout the Colony as a church worker of more than thirty years' standing. The Masons, Oddfellows, Foresfers, and Protestant Alliance Association, all claim Mr. Stone as a member, and, generally, he has lent his aid to all movements having for their object the well-being of society. In 1872 Mr. Stone was married at the Hutt, Wellington, by the Rev. George Harper, to Miss Rebecca Witt, daughter of the Rev. P. Witt, then of Birmingham, and a member of Carr's Lane Chapel, whose pastors were the celebrated Rev. John Angel James and Dr. Dale; and has one daughter and four sons. A nephew of Mr. Stone's, the Rev. Granville Sharp, is a Congregational minister at Clifton, Bristol, England.

Mr. S. Stone.

Mr. S. Stone.