Andrew Leete Stone (November 25, 1815 January 16, 1892) was an author,

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chaplain, and pastor of

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in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Stone was born in

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, in 1815 and graduated from

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in 1837. On July 14, 1842, Stone married Matilda Bertody Fisher of New York City. For three years, he served as a professor in the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Stone studied theology at Union Theological Seminary and became a Congregational clergyman. He resided in

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and then moved to Boston to become pastor of

in January 1849. In 1856-57 Stone invited evangelist,

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to preach at Park Street. After Finney preached, Stone proclaimed publicly that he had experienced a spiritual rebirth due to Finney's preaching, causing a stir around Boston and setting off a citywide revival. Stone received an honorary S.T.D. from

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in 1861. During the Civil War, Stone served as a chaplain for the 45th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He remained as pastor of Park Street until the spring of 1866. He then moved to

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, where he served as pastor of San Francisco's First Congregational Church for twenty-five years, until his death in 1892. He was the author of "Service the End of Living," and several other works. Stone had six children and died in San Francisco, California in 1892."Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut 1701-1924" (Yale University 1924)

Works

*''Service, the end of living icroform Delivered at the anniversary of the "Boston Young Men's Christian Association,"'' Monday evening, May 24, 1858 (1858

* ''A discourse occasioned by the death of Abraham Lincoln: who was assassinated in Washington, Friday, April 14, 1865.'' Preached in the Park Street Church, Boston, on the next Lord's day (1865

*''Memorial discourses'' by Andrew Leete Stone (H. Hoyt, 186

*''Leaves from a Finished Pastorate'' by Andrew Leete Stone (1882

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Andrew Leete 1815 births 1892 deaths American Congregationalists Yale College alumni Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni People from Oxford, Connecticut