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Born in Chesterfield , New Hampshire , to Frederick and Ann (Butler) Stone, he was the older brother of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone . He attended Amherst , Massachusetts , High School and Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University Of Massachusetts Amherst ), where he received his degree in 1882. He studied chemistry and biology at Boston University and the University Of Göttingen . He received his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1888, and was appointed chair of the chemistry department of Purdue University in 1889. After serving as Purdue's first vice president, he became president of the university in 1900. During Stone's tenure, Purdue's schools of agriculture and engineering grew rapidly. Dr. Stone's children were David Frederick Stone (1890-1987) and Richard Stone. His wife Victoria left him in 1907, travelling overseas to study philosophy. Dr. Stone and his wife Margaret (married in 1912) enjoyed mountaineering and climbed extensively in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks . On July 17, 1921, Stone fell to his death from the summit of Mt. Eon , Alberta , shortly after completing the peak's first ascent. |
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