A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              458 HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY
Harlan D. Stone. Among the early records of Connecticut may be found mention of the coming to that colony from England, in 1639, of Rev. John Stone, and his descendants may be found not only in Con¬ necticut but in many other states and in Wisconsin in particular, where for generations the name Stone has been identified with people of true worth, and in this connection may be mentioned Harlan D. Stone, the present register of deeds of Waupaca County. Mr. Stone is a native of Wisconsin and was born January 28, 1865, in Alto Township, Fond du Lac County. His parents were Edward P. and Annis AI. (Larrabee) Stone.
Edward P. Stone was born in 1837, in New York, and was a son of Russell and Julia Ann (Tower) Stone, who about 1840 moved to Illinois, and from there to Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, in 1849. Russell Stone was a miller by trade and also engaged in farming after coming to Wisconsin, in which state both he and wife died in advanced age. Edward P. Stone grew up on his father's pioneer farm and had but few educational advantages, as the country was almost a wilderness at that time. He was a man of natural intelligence, and he became a prominent citizen and leader in public affairs in Alto Township and served for eleven years as clerk of that township, elected on the republican ticket. He developed an excellent farm and was considered one of the substantial men of his neighborhood. He died in 1905, at the home of his son, Harlan D. He married Annis M. Larrabee, who was born in New York, in 1837, and died in 1887, in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Her parents were Ira and Paulina Larrabee, who came from New York to Wisconsin in 1841, and settled on a farm in Pleasant Prairie Township, Kenosha County, and there both died in 1873. They had a family of eleven children. To Edward P. Stone and his wife the following children were born: Harlan D. and Gertrude P. and Grace S., the two daughters being twins. The former is the wife of W. N. Russell and resides at Aurelia, Iowa. The latter is the wife of Edward W. Cross, and they reside at No. 806 Cramer Avenue, Alilwaukee, Wisconsin. The parents of the above children were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the father having at various times held every church office.
Harlan D. Stone was reared on the home farm and attended the public schools. He was a thoughtful and serious-minded young man and at the age of twenty-four years entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He cheerfully accepted and faithfully performed the onerous duties that attend the self-sacrificing life of a Methodist circuit-rider, and by 1904, when he came to Waupaca County, he had served six circuits, covering a period of fourteen years. After coming to this county, Mr. Stone turned his attention to agricultural pursuits for a time and owns a farm in Helvetia Township, but he also, for three years supplied the church at Iola. Not long after coming to Waupaca County, Mr. Stone was elected township clerk at Helvetia, on the repub¬ lican ticket, and served three years in that office and for four years was chairmxan of the township official board. He still retains his farm in Helvetia Township, but after being elected register of deeds of Waupaca