Rev. Henry Stone, pastor of the Advent Christian church of Wallingford, was born in Winsted, Connecticut, March 18, 1851. He was one of a family of five children born to Timothy George and Jane Ann (Fowler) Stone. By a former marriage the father also had five children. Timothy G. Stone was a native of Ellsworth, Litchfield county, and passed away there December 12, 1867, when fifty-five years of age. The mother, also a native of Ellsworth, died December 4, 1896, at the age of seventy years.

  Rev. Henry Stone pursued his education in the public and high schools of Winsted, Connecticut, supplemented by a correspondence course and by home study. For the past forty-five years he has been engaged in house and sign painting at Winsted and has probably the largest business in this line in the county, thus becoming a prominent representative of industrial activity. This, however, is but one phase of his life, for in 1889 he was ordained to the ministry in Bridgeport and was at once assigned to Wallingford, where he has since remained as pastor of the Advent Christian church. He had been an itinerant minister for several years previous. The denomination had never had a church edifice in Wallingford but met in halls and homes, but within six months after the arrival of Rev. Stone, he instituted a movement for the erection of a church and the work was steadily carried forward until the church was dedicated in 1891. Today the congregation owns church property valued at fifteen thousand dollars and free of all encumbrance. For years Rev. Stone has been president of the American Advent Home and Foreign Missionary Society, with offices in Boston. He is also vice president of the Advent Christian Publication Society, which is the parent organization of that body and which also has its headquarters in Boston. He is president of the Connecticut & Western Massachusetts Advent Christian Conference for the same district and is president of the Sunday School Association. For the past thirteen years he has been president of the Connecticut Camp Meeting Association and thus he is closely and prominently identified with all lines of the church work. He has established a branch mission of the Wallingford church in Meriden, which was opened in 1900, and he also acts as pastor of that congregation.

  On the 15th of May, 1872, in Winsted, Connecticut, Rev. Stone was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Sutton, a daughter of Isaac Sutton, of New Paltz, Ulster county, New York. In his political views Rev. Stone is a prohibitionist, of which cause he has ever been a faithful advocate. His entire life has been actuated by the most lofty principles, prompting him at all times to reach out a helping hand to his fellowmen. He has been identified with many branches of uplift work and his labors and teachings have been of farreaching effect, and he has not been denied the harvest and will reap the aftermath.