CHARLES

See also:

• POMEROY

POMEROY

See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• CHARLES POMEROY STONE (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

STONE (1824-1887)  , American soldier, was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on the 3oth of September 1824 . He graduated at West Point in 1845, and in the Mexican War earned two brevets for distinguished conduct . In 1856 he resigned from the army; and in 1857-1861 he led a scientific expedition in the state of Sonora, Mexico . He re-entered the service in 1861, and became a brigadier-general, United States Volunteers, but the defeat of a detachment at Ball's Bluff (Oct . 21, 1861) was attributed to him, and he was imprisonedfor six months, being then released without any charge being brought against him . After serving for short periods in the latter stages of the war, he resigned his commission (Sept . 1864) . He was engineer and superintendent of a mining company in Virginia from 1865 to 187o, when he entered the military service of the khedive of Egypt, whose chief of staff and general aide-de-camp he became, with the rank of lieutenant-general and the title of " Ferik Pasha." He returned to the United States in 1883, and resumed his engineering work . He died in New York City on the 24th of January 1887 .