Background
Stone, Wilbur Fisk was born on December 28, 1833 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Son of Homer Bishop and Lucy (Lindsey) Stone.
Stone, Wilbur Fisk was born on December 28, 1833 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Son of Homer Bishop and Lucy (Lindsey) Stone.
Student Asbury (now DePauw) University, Indiana, Master of Arts, 1865. Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University, 1857, Bachelor of Laws, 1858, Master of Arts, 1860.
Editor-in-chief Daily Enquirer, Evansville, Indiana, 1858-1859. Began practice of law, 1859. Went to Omaha, Nebraska, 1859, and became editor of the Nebraskian, also assistant postmaster.
Crossed the plains to “Pikes Peak,” spring of 1860.
Member 1st legislature of Colorado Ty., 1861, 1862, and 1864. Assistant United State Attorneys for Colorado, 1862-1866.
Member Constitutional Convention, 1876 (chairman judiciary committee). Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado, 1877-1886.
Judge of Criminal Court, Denver, 1887-1890.
One of 5 Judges of the United States Court of Mexican and Spanish Land Grant Claims, 1891-1904 (until work of court was ended). Spent winter of 1892-1893 in Spain on official business, examining Crown Grant title records of the Royal Archives of Madrid and Seville. First general attorney of Doctorate.&Radh Govinda Railroad, 1872-1877.
Negotiated building of A.,T. &San Francisco Railway from Kansas to Pueblo, Colorado.
Member Colorado State Bar Association (president 1908-1909), Denver Bar Association Trustee Saint Luke’s Hospital, Wolfe Hall (young ladies’ school).
Married Sarah J. Sadler, February 1866.