Samuel Hanson Stone

Samuel Hanson Stone ( * December 4, 1849 in Richmond, † April 3, 1909 in Galveston (Texas ) ) was an American politician.

Life

Stone was a son of the merchant, farmer and banker James C. Stone from Leavenworth, Kansas and the law daughter Matilda, born in Hanson, a sister of General of the Confederate Army Roger Hanson. He attended from 1864, the Lee High School in western Massachusetts in 1866 and began the study of law at the University of Leipzig. In January 1870 he moved to Heidelberg, where he - after he had already become Thuringian in Leipzig - a member of the Corps was Rhenaniastraße. In the same year he returned to the United States and was first mate of the cash Second National Bank in Leavenworth. In 1874 he settled as a farmer and entrepreneur in Madison County, Kentucky. In 1876 he founded a short- horn cattle and thoroughbred horses farm near the Fort Estill station and was the second largest grower of the County.

Stone officiated in 1895 as a 1899 Auditor of Public Accounts for Kentucky. In 1899 he was defeated in the nomination of the Republican candidate for the office of governor of Kentucky with a few votes against the controversial later incumbent William Sylvester Taylor ( 1853-1928 ).