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I have put this in the American section but am not really sure if this is right (Admin please move if incorrect), This teaspoon which tests as sterling is marked on the back H & S and Stone & Ball, does anybody have any information on the maker please?
Seymour H. Stone, bookkeeper and manager of the city office for the Oakwood Cemetery Association, was born at Homer, New York, July 27, 1831, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. Jacob T. Stone, of that place. The family comes of English origin but representatives of the name settled in New England at an early period in the colonization of the new world. Seymour H. Stone was a pupil in the Cortland Academy to the age of thirteen years and the following year came to Syracuse. He can truly be called a self-made man, for he has been both the architect and builder of his own fortune. He first entered the dry-goods business and afterward spent five years and a half learning the jewelry, clock and watch repairing business. He became an expert in these lines and on the expiration of that period he bought the stock of Norton & Hotchkiss, in the present location of the Gridley block, having as a partner Calvin S. Ball, Jr., under the firm style of Stone & Ball. This relation was maintained until 1869, when Mr. Stone sold his interest to his partner. They had been very prosperous but failing health caused him to retire temporarily from commercial circles and for three years he engaged in no business. He then entered the printing business with Masters & Lee, supplying the capital necessary to broaden the business and extend its scope. The firm then became Masters, Lee & Stone and they were publishers of the Northern Christian Advocate from 1872 until 1894, when they sold to the Methodist Book Concern. Mr. Stone, thoroughly familiar with the business,.remained with them for a year as bookkeeper and in the spring of 1904 became connected with the Oakwood Cemetery Association as bookkeeper and manager of the city office, which is his present connection.
At the time of the Civil war, Mr. Stone was a loyal advocate of the Union cause and did everything to further its interests. He served with the Citizens Corps at that time, first as a private, corporal and sergeant, and afterward as second lieutenant. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party since its organization and he is a stalwart champion of its principles and policy. In Masonry he has attained distinguished honors, being a thirty-third degree Mason. He belongs to Central City Lodge, No. 305, F. & A. M.; Central City Chapter, No. 70, R. A. M.; Central City Commandery, No. 25, K. T.; Central City Council, R. & S. M.; and in June, 1866, received the thirty-third degree and is now the senior honorary member of the Supreme Council in this state, and also the oldest living past grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons, state of New York. He has twice served as master of his lodge and has been very active in its work, exemplifying in his life the beneficient spirit of the craft, which is based on mutual helpfulness and brotherly kindness. Mr. Stone is a member of the Massachusetts Society of-Mayflower Descendants; the Syracuse Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution; the Historical Association; and the Citizens’ Club. He is a member of St. Paul ’s Episcopal church, of which he is the senior vestryman.
In 1854 Mr. Stone was married to Miss Lucena Robinson, daughter of William A. Robinson, a prominent hotel proprietor of Syracuse at an early day. They have now traveled life ’s journey happily together for fifty-three years, their mutual love and confidence increasing as the years have gone by, bringing with them the joys and sorrows, the adversity and prosperity which checker the careers of all.
Source: Past and present of Syracuse and Onondaga county, New York - Rev. William Martin Beauchamp - 1908
