Stone Family

Members of the Stone family of Macomb County and Kalamazoo, Michigan, the McCalmont family of Pennsylvania, and the Osborn and Keeler family of New York state included both physicians and civic and political figures.

Dr. A. R. (Addison Ray) Stone was an 1854 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and served one year during 1862-1863 as assistant surgeon of the 5th Regiment Michigan Cavalry.

Dr. W. A. (William Addison) Stone was an 1885 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and a lecturer there in 1905-1906. He became a specialist in nervous and mental diseases and was for 19 years assistant superintendent of the Michigan State Hospital for the Insane at Kalamazoo, where he became known as an innovator of new methods in the institutional care of the insane.

Born at Franklin, Pennsylvania, Dr. Harriette Osborn McCalmont Stone graduated in 1893 from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and came to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1897 to serve as assistant physician at the Michigan State Hospital for the Insane. In 1898 she married Dr. William Addison Stone, then assistant superintendent of that same institution. She was active in several professional and social organizations though most of her papers pre-date those associations.

Samuel Plumer McCalmont was a prominent Pennsylvania lawyer and businessman, onetime state legislator, leader in the formation of the Republican Party and delegate to the first Republican National Convention. He broke with the party over the temperance issue, becoming in 1874 a founder of the Prohibition Party in Pennsylvania, and publisher of perhaps the country's first Prohibition Party newspaper.

From the guide to the Stone-McCalmont Family Papers, 1832-1930, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)