Among his students were Joe Morello, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, and Vic Firth.
George Lawrence learned drums and xylophone from his father and also helped out in his shop, where the elder Stone tucked drumheads, turned drumsticks, made wooden foot pedals and sold violins.
In 1910, he was a xylophonist on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit, and he played timpani and bells with the Boston Festival Orchestra.
[4] He also wrote articles on drumming technique for International Musician and Jacob's Orchestra Monthly.
Stone was a founding member of the National Association of Rudimental Drummers (NARD) which began in 1933, and served as its president for fifteen years.
Jazz drummer Joe Morello started taking lessons from Stone when he was sixteen.
Stone, in turn, was inspired by Morello, who would add various accents to the exercises in Stick Control.