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William was born on April 4, 1835 in New York City, New York, United States and was the only child of William Leete Stone, the well-known historian, and Susannah Pritchard (Wayland).
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William was born on April 4, 1835 in New York City, New York, United States and was the only child of William Leete Stone, the well-known historian, and Susannah Pritchard (Wayland).
He received his early education there and in Saratoga Springs, his mother's home, to which she returned in 1844 after his father's death. Under his uncle, President Francis Wayland, he entered Brown University in 1853 and received his degree five years later, John Hay being a classmate with whom he carried on a correspondence for years. The year 1856 he spent in Germany learning the language for the purpose of translating memoirs of German participants in the American Revolution. He also took a course at the Albany Law School.
After taking a course at the Albany Law School, Stone was admitted to the bar, and practised his profession in 1860-63 at Saratoga Springs. Literary work proved to be more inviting than the law, however, and he accepted the city editorship of the New York Journal of Commerce, 1864-67.
As his father's literary executor, he completed in 1865 The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson for which his father had written the first seven chapters. The next year he wrote a guidebook, Saratoga Springs, and "Life and Writings of Col. William Leete Stone" in a reprint of his father's Life of Red Jacket.
In 1867 appeared his translation, Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American Revolution, from the papers of the wife of General Riedesel, followed by Memoirs and Letters and Journals of Major General Riedesel (2 vols. , 1868), and much later by Journal of Capt. Pausch (1886) and Letters of Brunswick and Hessian Officers during the American Revolution (1891).
Meanwhile his printing shop in New York had succumbed to the panic of 1872 and the College Review, 1870-74, of which he was editor and proprietor, had proved to be unprofitable. He therefore obtained (1872) a position in the Customs House in New York which he held for many years. With an assured income, he devoted himself to historical projects.
As one of the incorporators and secretary of the Saratoga Monument Association in 1871 he worked indefatigably. When the corner stone of the monument was laid on October 17, 1877, he delivered an address and subsequently wrote History of the Saratoga Monument Association (pamphlet, 1879). During the Centennial of 1876, he was appointed historian for New York State.
His interest in the Revolution resulted in the publication of The Campaign of Lieutenant General John Burgoyne (1877); Memoir of the Centennial Celebration of Burgoyne's Surrender at Schuylerville (1878); The Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson (1882); Ballads and Poems Relating to the Burgoyne Campaign (1893); and Visits to the Saratoga Battle-Grounds 1780-1880 (1895).
Mayor Strong designated him one of a committee which supervised the publication of the Records of New Amsterdam (7 vols. , 1897). He was an original trustee of the New York State Historical Association. Shortly before his death Governor Higgins appointed him a member of the commission for the Hudson-Fulton celebration in 1909.
During the latter part of his life he lived at Jersey City Heights, New Jersey, and Mount Vernon, New York. He died in 1908.
William Leete Stone has been secretary of the Saratoga Monument Association since its incorporation by the legislature of the state of New York in 1871, and is also one of its original trustees and incorporators. He wrote articles for newspapers, historical journals, and genealogical and biographical encyclopedias, and left unfinished a history of the Six Nations and a life of George Clinton. Although an editor and compiler rather than a creative historian, Stone won a creditable place among American literary men.
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He was interested in reforms, education, sports, and public affairs, but was not ambitious for public honors. With a genial disposition and a ready wit, he was a welcome guest in a wide circle.
He was a member of the New York State Historical Association.
He married, June 1, 1859, Harriet Douglas Gillette of Cleveland, Ohio, and they had six children, two of whom died in infancy.
