STONE, Andrew Leete, born in Oxford, Connecticut, 25 November, 1815. His father, Noah Stone, was town-clerk and justice of the peace for a quarter of a century, served for several terms as judge of probate, and had local reputation as a physician. The son was graduated at Yale in 1837, and served for three years as a professor in the New York institution for the deaf and dumb, studying at Union theological seminary. He then connected himself with the American Sunday-school union at Philadelphia, and in September, 1844, was ordained pastor of the South Congregational church at Middletown, Connecticut In January, 1849, he was called to the pastorate of the Park street church, Boston. In 1866 he received a call to the 1st Congregational church in San Francisco, California In 1881, his health failing, he was elected pastor emeritus. He is the author of " Service the End of Living" (1858) ; "Ashton's Mothers " (1859); " Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln" (1865); and numerous printed addresses. Two volumes of his sermons have been published, entitled " Memorial Discourses" (1866); and "Leaves from a Finished Pastorate" (1882).--His brother, David Marvin, journalist, born in Oxford, Connecticut, 23 December, 1817, left home at the age of fourteen, and taught when he was sixteen. He was a merchant in Philadelphia from 1842 till 1849, when he was called to New York city to take charge of the "Dry Goods Reporter." In December of that year he became commercial editor of the New York "Journal of Commerce," and in September, 1861, with William C. Prime, he purchased the interest of that paper, succeeding Mr. Prime in 1866 as editor-in-chief, which post he still (1888) retains. He was president of the New York associated press for twenty-five years. For several years he contributed a financial article weekly to the New York " Observer," edited as a pastime the " Ladies' Wreath," and conducted the financial department of" Hunt's Merchants' Magazine." An important event in the history of his paper was its suppression by the government in 1864 for publishing a proclamation purporting to have been issued by President Lincoln, calling for volunteers to serve in the war and naming a day of fasting and prayer. It was the production of Joseph Howard, Jr., and appeared in the "Journal of Commerce," 18 May, 1864. The " Herald" printed 25,000 copies containing the so-called proclamation, but, finding that neither the "Times" nor the "Tribune" had printed it, destroyed the edition. The "World" published it, but afterward endeavored to undo the mischief President Lincoln immediately ordered the suppression of the "Journal of Commerce" and the " World," and the arrest and imprisonment of their editors and proprietors. General John A. Dix, who knew that the proclamation had been left at.. the newspaper offices at about three o'clock in the morning, after the responsible editors had departed, endeavored to secure a modification of this order. Some of the persons designated were arrested, but they did not include David M. Stone or Manton Marble. The government soon found that it had made a mistake, the troops that had been put in possession of the two newspaper offices were withdrawn, and the editors were released from arrest and their papers from suspension. Mr. Stone's opinions on commercial and other matters in his "answers to correspondents" are regarded as an authority by merchants throughout the country. In his younger days he wrote for the magazines, but since 1860 he has done little literary work except for his own paper. He published a volume called "Frank Forest," which passed through twenty editions (1849), and a memorial volume containing the " Life and Letters" of his niece, Mary Elizabeth Hubbell (1857).