The
Grand Army
of the Republic
Department of New York
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Rev. Martin V. Stone
Commander
Department of New York
1929
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Rev. Martin V. Stone, Adjutant General, died in office on February 18, 1939, aged 93 years. He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 112th New York Infantry in August 1864 and was discharged in June 1865. Comrade Stone had been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic for many years and had served his Post in the offices of Commander and Adjutant, holding the later office at the time of his death. This was James M. Brown Post #285, Jamestown, NY. He had been elected Department Chaplain in 1922 and Department Commander in 1929. He had been Department Chaplain for the last 5 years. In the absence of Chaplain-in-Chief Gibson, Comrade Stone acted as Chaplain-in-Chief at the National Encampment in Madison, Wisconsin and there he was elected Chaplain-in-Chief, officiating at all the excerises at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the National Encampment in Des Moines last September. |
| Comrade Stone was educated at the Chamberlain
Institute in Randolph, N.Y. In 1871 he took up ministerial work in the towns about the headwaters of the Tionesta and Clarlon Rivers and later in the year was appointed Junior Minister. He had several charges in Pennsylvania and them served in many towns in New York. His largest church was the Cascade Methodist Church in Erie, Pa., and his last church was in Portland, N.Y.Comrade Stone retired from the ministry in 1921 and was Dean of the Erie Conference. Source: 1939 National Journal GAR and Woman's Relief Corps, NY Dept. Journal 1939. Submitted by Lorraine Orton, PDP-WRC |
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