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BRADSHAW H. STONE has been a resident of Northampton for more than thirty years, having settled in his present home at 200 State Street, in 1862. He is a native of Windham, Vt., where he was born February 6, 1825, son of Horace W. and Hannah (Fisher) Stone.

Horace W. Stone was born in Ashburnham, Mass., January 6, 1800, being a son of Joseph Stone, of whose record little is definitely known. He was a railroad contractor, spending the larger part of his life in New England, dying August 29, 1887, in Northampton. He had several contracts on the Boston & Albany Railroad, the Hartford, the Connecticut River, and the Fitchburg roads. In 1853 he built a portion of the Wabash & Indiana Railroad. Seven children were born to him and his wife, of whom five grew to adult life. These were: Bradshaw H., the subject of this sketch; Orlando F., formerly engaged in farming at Westminster, Vt., who died December 30, 1863, aged thirty-seven years; George Kirk, formerly a trainman, who was killed December 1, 1853, aged twenty-one years; Evander M., formerly a baggage master, who died September 15, 1863, aged twenty-eight years; and Hannah M., widow of the late Malery Locke, of Chicago, Ill.

Bradshaw H. Stone was reared to manhood on his father’s farm. He subsequently assisted his father in his business of contracting and building. He was first employed as a train master on the Cheshire Railway, and afterward as section man on the Connecticut River road. He was also a train conductor for many years, and a road master for a shorter time. He is now quietly engaged cultivating a meadow farm of nine acres, on which he keeps a horse and cow. In politics he was a Whig, but since the organization of the Republican party he has been one of its strongest adherents. He was superintendent of streets for sixteen years, and had charge of much of the work of constructing the city water works. Religiously, both he and his wife are valued members of the Baptist church, and active workers in the denomination.

Mr. Stone has been twice married. He was first married November 17, 1850, to Mary Ellen Stoddard, who died fourteen months after. On December 6, 1852, Mr. Stone was united in wedlock a second time with Eliza P. Barrett, born August 15, 1823, in Windham, Vt., a daughter of Simeon and Edith (Farr) Barrett. Mrs. Stone was liberally educated, and for several years prior to her marriage was engaged in teaching school. Of the union two children have been born, namely: Kirk H., who has been book-keeper for eighteen years with the same firm, is married and has four children, three sons and a daughter; and Urban S., a ranchman at Montrose, Col. Mr. and Mrs. Stone are highly esteemed by their neighborhood.