James Andrus Blinn Stone (1810–1888) was a minister, professor, and school administrator.

His wife, Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, was a partner and administrator at the school.

James Andrus B Stone was born on October 28, 1810, in Piermont, New Hampshire.

[4] Stone also played a role in the creation of the United States Republican Party.

A meeting of disgruntled Michigan Whigs, Democrats, and abolitionists at the Stones' Kalamazoo residence set the date for an anti-slavery convention in Jackson, Michigan that resulted in one of the formal births of the Republican Party.