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• m. Mary Knight Bradford; b. Jan 29, 1868, Westboro MA; d. Feb. 9, 1946, Washington DC, bur. Rock Creek Cemetery. Their marriage was on Oct. 7, 1902 in Washington DC.
• George and Mary had 4 children, all born in Washington DC:
  • Stephen Winchester Stone; b. July 10, 1904; d. Aug. 2, 1904, in infancy.
  • Bradford Winchester Stone (1905-1989)
  • George Winchester Stone, Jr. (1907-2000)
  • Katherine Abigail Stone; b. Feb. 14, 1909; d. July 1, 1909, in infancy.

Brief Biography:

• Susan Wood Stone; b. 1855, at Dover NH.
  • m. Rev. Clarence Hills
• Louise Frances Stone; b. 1859, at Newton MA.
  • m. Hon. Oliver B. Jones
• Katherine Ham Stone; b. 1860, at Newton MA.
  • never married.
• George Winchester Stone (1865-1957), b. 1865, Marietta OH, see above.

Stephen moved to Marietta OH because Stephen was a Civil Engineer for the Marietta and Cincinatti Railroad. Shortly after George was born, the family move to Cincinatti OH, where Stephen was working for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. George received his primary and secondary education in Cincinatti, the enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1885, as an architecture student.

After finishing his courses at M.I.T. in 1888, he worked as an architectural draftsman in various firms in Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinatti. In 1896 he took a 6 months tour of Europe (Italy, France, and England) with a fellow architect, Addison Le Boutellier.

In 1902 he took a Civil Service Examination, and settled into a position in the office of the Supervising Architect, then under the administration of the Treasury Department. On Oct. 7, 1902, he married Mary Knight Bradford, whom he met on a Mission Study Club picnic at the Congregational Church in Washington DC. George remained under the employment of the U.S. Government until he retired as Superintendent of Architecture in 1935

George was a charter member of the University Club of Washington D.C., and in addition to his government work he was the architect for, and part owner of, the Kenesaw Apartment House (now La Renaissance), subsequently identified as one of the Best Addresses in a book of that title by James M. Goode (Smithsonian Institution Press, Wash. DC 1988). The Kenesaw spent part of its history, through a philanthropic gift by its owner at that time, Dr. Aaron H. Gerber, as a property of the Law School for Antioch College after which it was sold to enhance Antioch's endowment in 1977.

George was also the architect for the Johnson Chapel of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Chevy Chase MD.

References:

• A Line of Bradfords 1460-1988, by Bradford Stone.
• Best Addresses - A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses by James M. Goode, pub. by the Smithsonian Insttituion, Wash. DC, 1988.