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treasured by householders of that sec-
tion. He enlisted in the Civil War from
McConnellsburg, and died of disease during
the war, somewhere on the Lower
Mississippi.
His son, Merrick A. Stoner, was born
in McConnellsburg, in i860, and died in
1900. He was educated in the public
schools, and later entered the laundry-
business, which he followed nearly all his
life. He engaged in the laundry bus-
iness in different cities in which he
lived; Bedford, Pennsylvania; Cincinnati,
Ohio; Washington, D. C. ; and
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Bayonne,
New Jersey. He came to Hartford in
1895 to assume the managership of the
Empire Steam Laundry, which is still one
of the principal laundries of the city. He
married Mary, daughter of John Dicken,
of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and they were
the parents of three children: George J.,
now an attorney of Hartford ; Louis Emory,
of whom further; and Bessie, who
married Fred G. Abby, of Los Angeles.
His wife still survives him, and is a mem-
ber of the First Baptist Church.
Louis Emory Stoner was born in Bed-
ford, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1881. son of
Merrick A. and Mary (Dicken) Stoner.
He attended the public schools in the
various cities in which his parents re-
sided, completing his formal education in
the Hartford Public High School. Being
a young man of observant and studious
habits, and possessing a retentive memory,
his real education was by no means
confined to the lessons which he had
learned from his text-books. He was bet-
ter prepared than most youths to enter a
business career. He entered the employ of
the City Bank of Hartford, beginning as
a messenger. He soon showed himself
capable of the faithful discharge of more
important duties, and was advanced to
more responsible positions. His prog-
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ress upward was steady and sure, and he
at length became assistant cashier. He
resigned, after eighteen years of service,
in February, 191 5, to become treasurer
and manager of the Hartford Morris Plan
Company. He remained there until April,
1916, when he became the treasurer of the
Jacobs Manufacturing Company. He was
elected president and treasurer upon the
death of Arthur I. Jacobs. This is one of
the many important manufacturing firms
of Hartford. Since Mr. Stoner's connec-
tion with the firm the business has felt
a new impetus, while being carried along
strictly in the same spirit of business in-
tegrity and progress as heretofore. Mr.
Stoner takes an active interest in the busi-
ness, and is familiar with the work done
in all departments. He is a member of
the Hartford Club, the Farmington Coun-
try Club, the City Club, of Hartford, the
Hartford Gun Club. He is an out-door
man in his tastes, is active and full of the
keenest interest in all the out-door world,
but his favorite sports are hunting and
fishing. He is a director of five important
Hartford concerns : The Jacobs Manufacturing
Company, the Rhodes Manu-
facturing Company, the Hartford Morris
Plan Company, the American Industrial
Bank & Trust Company, and the Wr
hitlock
Coil Pipe Company.
Mr. Stoner married Clara, daughter of
Arthur I. Jacobs, a sketch of whose life
appears elsewhere in this work. They
are the parents of two sons, Arthur M.,
and Louis B. Stoner. The family are
members of the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Stoner is a man of very pleasing
personality, a man who meets his fellow-
citizens with a frank and sincere interest,
and gives of the wealth of his broad and
generous nature to make the world about
him a better place in which to live.