Frederick Stone

He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, beginning practice in Port Tobacco, Maryland.

He was appointed by the legislature in 1852 as one of the commissioners to revise the rules of pleading and practice in the State courts.

During the Abraham Lincoln assassination trial in May & June 1865, Frederick Stone and Thomas Ewing Jr. appeared as defense counsels for Samuel Mudd and David Herold.

He later aligned himself with the Republican Party sometime after 1880[3] and defeated appointed incumbent Daniel Randall Magruder to win a seat as an associate judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals,[4] serving from 1881 to 1890.

Maria died in November 1867, and he married her sister, Jennie Stonestreet Ferguson, on June 15, 1870.