Stone, Ralph, 1868-1956.
Ralph Stone was born in Wilmington, Delaware, November 20, 1868. He was graduated from Swarthmore College in 1889, then from the University of Michigan Law School in 1892. At the U-M, Stone was a member of the first editorial staff of the Michigan Daily and editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Journal . In succeeding years Stone was active in alumni affairs and fundraising. He was trustee of the Alumni Fund from its incorporation in 1920 until 1941.
He began practicing law in Grand Rapids in 1892. The next year he was appointed trust officer of the Michigan Trust Company of Grand Rapids. On January 1, 1899, he was appointed private secretary to Governor Hazen S. Pingree. After serving briefly as a state bank examiner, he was appointed assistant secretary of the newly organized Detroit Trust Co. He was president of the Detroit Trust Co. from 1915 to 1927 and chairman of the board from 1927 to 1933. Thereafter was consultant to the company until he retired in 1945.
During World War I, Stone was director of the Bureau of Trusts of the Alien Property Custodian in Washington DC. He was also president of the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research, a trustee of the Cranbrook Foundation, and treasurer of the Liberty Loan Committee of Detroit and Wayne County.
Stone served two eight-year terms as Regent of the University of Michigan, from 1924 to 1940
He died in May 11, 1956.
From the guide to the Ralph Stone papers, 1882-1956, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)
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Birth 1868
Death 1956
