Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone
Born October 11, 1872, in a modest cottage
1.7 miles southeast of here on Horseshoe Road,
Stone graduated from Amherst College and
Columbia Law School, returning to the latter
as Dean, 1910-1924. Attorney General in President Coolidge’s Cabinet,
he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme
Court in 1924 and Chief Justice in 1941,
serving until his death April 22, 1946. A
teacher, lawyer, judge, and judicial craftsman
of the highest order, he held the affection
and respect of the lawyers of the nation.
Marker is on Local Route 63 0.1 miles north of Old Chesterfield Road, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
