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Capt. Hubbard Stone, merchant, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 20, 1827. His father, Wilmot Stone, was born in Guilford, Conn., of an old New England family, and in after life engaged in shoemaking in Cincinnati. The mother was Miss Ann eddy, a native of Vermont, and a lady of character and energy. Our subject was reared in the place of his birth, and in 1850 joined a company of 130 who started by water for California. He remained in that State, engaged in mining and merchandising, until April, 1854, when he returned home and sold goods until 1856. He then went into the hardware business at Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1857 began to deal in real estate. Upon the outbreak of the war he joined the Union army as a private. He was afterward made sergeant-major and then first lieutenant of Company A, Fifty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the fall of Vicksburg he was made captain of Company H of the same regiment. He was wounded by a shell at the battle of Resaca, and was disabled at the battle of Ezra Church, near Atlanta, Ga. After the war he again returned to Cincinnati, and in 1865, on April 1, landed at Fort Smith, where he has since been engaged in the mercantile business. He is a well-to-do man, although he has twice suffered heavy losses. He was married in Cincinnati to Miss Miriam E. Meader, daughter of Daniel F. Meader, a furniture manufacturer and dealer of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have an adopted daughter, Bettie, now the wife of Howard B. Wier, and a lineal descendant of Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. She has two children, Hubbard Stone and Mary. Mr. Howard B. Wier is a son of the Rev. Wier, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (of Mississippi). For twelve years he served as school director of Fort Smith, during which time he assisted in obtaining from the Government a donation of 365 acres of land in the Government reservation for school purposes. He is a director and stockholder in the First National Bank and the Water Works Company, and has served as secretary of the latter association. He is treasurer of the Western Arkansas Fair Association, and one of its leading spirits. Both himself and wife are active members and liberal donators to the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the G. A. R., K. of H. and A. F. & A. M.