Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: John Marshall Stone Papers (Z/0026).
Creator/Collector: John Marshall Stone; and others.
Date(s): 1862-1926.
Size: 0.40 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, 1930; Microfilmed in May 1974.
Provenance: A portion of the collection was a gift of Mrs. John M. Stone, of Iuka, MS, in 1930; Additional items were purchased by the MDAH in April 1945 and September 1946.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: John Marshall Stone Papers (Z/0026), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

John Marshall Stone

Papers of John Marshall Stone (April 30, 1830 - March 26, 1900) who served as Mississippi state senator, governor (March 29, 1876 - January 9, 1882; January 13, 1890 - January 20, 1896), railroad commissioner, and president of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (Mississippi State University). These papers pertain to political affairs; to the history of the Second Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army, which Stone commanded; and to the controversy with the United States Treasury Department over the issue of special warrants under the Mississippi law of February 10, 1894.

 

Scope and Content Note:

The collection contains letters from:
William Cullen Bryant (February 5, 1877), 1 letter.
Frank Burkitt (May 18, 1881, and July 21, 1892), 2 letters.
Frank A. Critz (May 6 and 27, 1888), 2 letters.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis (June 20, 1890 - December 25, 1891), 7 letters.
Joseph R. Davis (March 7, 1878 - March 21, 1894), 3 letters.
Varina Anne Davis (May 15, 1891), 1 letter.
Thomas S. Gathright (January 30, 1878), 1 letter.
James Z. George (July 19 - August 4, 1891), 9 letters.
Joseph Holt (December 26, 1877), 1 letter.
Margaret H. Davis Hayes (April 28 and May 29, 1891), 2 letters.
Thomas G. Jones (September 10 and 19, 1894), 2 letters.
L. Q. C. Lamar (July 5, 1872 - April 9, 1891), 7 letters.
J. S. McNeily (October 18 and December 24, 1894), 2 letters.
John J. Pettus (November 10, 1862), 1 letter.
W. W. Stone (July 25, 1894), 1 letter.
E. C. Walthall (April 5, 1876), 1 letter.
 

Twenty-seven items are letters or documents by John M. Stone (October 14, 1861 - May 17, 1894). The last 18 letters of the collection are addressed to Mrs. John M. Stone, and the first two of these letters (December 23, 1902, and January 15, 1903) are from Morris W. Sasure, Fairfield, Ohio, in regard to the return of Stone's sword. The volume is a notebook (9 x 21 cm., pp. 22) kept by Stone.

The papers are distributed by dates as follows:
Undated, 15 pieces.
1861–1865, 7 pieces.
1872–1879, 32 pieces.
1881–1889, 6 pieces.
1890–1899, 77 pieces.
1901–1926, 19 pieces.