Samuel Hanson Stone

Samuel Hanson Stone (December 4, 1849 near Richmond, Kentucky – April 3, 1909 in Galveston, Texas) was an American politician.

Stone was born as a son of the merchant, farmer and banker James C. Stone from Leavenworth, Kansas and the daughter of a lawyer Matilda, born Hanson, a sister to the Confederate General Roger Hanson.

As from 1864 Stone visited the Lee High School in West-Massachusetts and started in 1866 with his study of jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig (Saxony, Germany).

Within the same year Stone moved back to the U.S. where he started off as an assistant clerk at the Second National Bank in Leavenworth.

Stone established 1876 close to Fort Estill Station a cattle farm and started to rear thoroughbred horses and rose to become the second biggest tobacco grower in the county.