Livingston Stone

Background

Stone, Livingston was born on October 21, 1835 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Peter Robert Livingston and Lavinia (Winship) Stone.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1857, Master of Arts, 1860. Graduate Meadville (Pennsylvania) Theological Seminary, 1860.

Career

Pastor Unitarian churches, Billerica, Massachusetts, Detroit and Philadelphia, 1860-1864, Charlestown, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1864-1868. Established trout breeding station at Charlestown, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1866 (2d attempt at practical fish culture in the United States). Appointed deputy United States fish commissioner, 1872.

Established salmon hatching stations for United States Government on McCloud River, California, 1872 and 1879, and on Columbia River, for cannerymen, 1877.

In early 70s transported car load of live Atlantic fish and fish eggs across continent and deposited same in Pacific Ocean, this being first successful attempt of the kind ever made. Accompanied Government expedition to Alaska to investigate salmon fisheries, as a result of which Afognac Island was designated as a reservation for salmon culture by President Harrison.

In charge Cape Vincent (New York) Station, 1897-1906. Retired, 1906.

Achievements

• Livingston Stone has been listed as a noteworthy fish culturist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Domesticated Trout - How to Breed and Grow Them

    (Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)

  • Domesticated trout

    (This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)

  • Domesticated Trout. How To Breed And Grow Them FACSIMILE

    (HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: Stone, Livingston: D...)

  • Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them - Primary Source Edition

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Domesticated trout. How to breed and grow them - Primary Source Edition

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them 1873 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 371. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

  • Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them 1877 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 399. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

  • Domesticated trout: How to breed and grow them
  • Domesticated Trout - How to Breed and Grow Them by Stone, Livingston (2007) Paperback
  • DOMESTICATED TROUT. How to Breed & Grow Them. Fourth edition.
  • Domesticated Trout. How To Breed And Grow Them.

Connections

Married Rebecca Saulsbury Cushing, April.

Father:

Peter Robert Livingston Stone

Mother:

Lavinia (Winship) Stone

Spouse:

Rebecca Saulsbury Cushing