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ANSON A. STONE is a son of Stephen Bradley and Lorcy Lake (Latlin) Stone, and was born in Mansfield, Cattaraugus county, New York, February 13, 1842. His grandfather, Norman Stone, was of English ancestry, and was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he afterward became a blacksmith. He married Tryphena Hand, who was also a native of Connecticut and by whom he had several children. He died in 1838. Stephen Bradley Stone (father) was a native of Litchfield, Connecticut, born in 1810, and was one of the early settlers of Cattaraugus county, this State, where he engaged in farming, having purchased a tract of land there, which had been surveyed by the Holland Land company. He was a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a deacon. When the church was organized in Cattaraugus county, he was elected a class leader, held to be a mark of honor, of confidence and veneration in those days. Politically he was a whig and afterward a republican, and was justice of the peace of Cattaraugus county, In 1872 he moved to Eden, Erie county, this State, where he resided until his death in 1890, at the age of eighty years. He married Lorcy Lake Latlin, a native of Otsego county, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and by her had several children. She died in 1849, at Mansfield, Cattaraugus county, this State, aged forty-nine years.

Anson A. Stone was brought up in Mansfield, where he was born, and was educated at the Union school at Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county, and at the Springville academy, Erie county, After leaving the halls of Minerva, he commenced the study of dentistry at Springville, and in 1861 began the practice of that profession at Collins Centre, Erie county, where he remained a year and then located at Westfield, this county, where he spent another year and then went to Sinclairville, where he remained twenty-four years. In 1885 he moved to Dunkirk and five years later to Fredonia, where he now resides and where he has an office over the Lake Shore Bank, in which he receives his patrons, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday of each week, devoting Wednesday to Forestville, Friday to Sinclairville, and Saturday to Stockton, all in this county, and in each of which he has an office. He enjoys a very large practice and is considered one of the best dentists in this section. Firm in his convictions, affable in address, genial in manner, he is conceded to be one of the best of citizens. Politically he is a republican, and is a Royal Arch Mason.

Anson A. Stone was married April 1, 1866, to Sarah B. Furman, a daughter of Elijah Furman of Owatonna, Minnesota, by whom he has one daughter, Ella, married to Silas T. Crocker, of Fredonia.