{"id":1377,"date":"2014-08-17T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/?page_id=1377"},"modified":"2022-05-20T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T00:20:05","slug":"fanny-s-stone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/features\/fanny-s-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanny S. Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fanny Stone was a writer in Racine who published: Racine, Belle City of the Lakes, and Racine County<\/a> in 1916. She is listed as the supervising editor. She would have been 56 years old at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Racine<\/a>
Racine Daily Journal, May 12, 1899
Afternoon Reception and Dancing Party at home of Mrs. Charles R. Carpenter
Mrs. Fanny Stone and Mrs. F. M. Fish presided at the punch bowl.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Racine Daily Journal, June 26, 1900
Mrs. Fanny Stone was in Racine High School’s Class of 1879, if if she were 18 when she graduated, then she would have been born in 1861.
Earlier in the article, she is referred to as F. B. Sage, so B. may have been her original middle initial.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Racine<\/a>
Racine Daily Journal, June 25, 1906
Mrs. Fanny S. Stone, 938 Superior street, has donated to the public library a collection, consisting of several exceedingly valuable books, the majority of them bearing upon the early history of Racine.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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938 Superior Street in 2007
The original Sage house<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Racine Daily Journal, November 14, 1906
The Daughters of the Revolution were royally entertained yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Fanny Stone and Miss Sage at their home on Superior Street.
(Miss Sage is probably Fanny’s sister.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Racine<\/a>
Racine Daily Journal, November 24, 1906
Mrs. Fanny Stone, President of the Woman’s Club, kindly read her paper, The Eternal Feminine, a bit of spicy literature quite realistic and to the point.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Racine Journal, April 21, 1908
Mrs. Fanny Stone is the vice president of the Taylor Orphan Asylum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Racine<\/a>
Racine Journal News, October 11, 1916. Mrs. Fanny S. Stone, whose father and uncle came here in 1836 and settled in that section of the city commonly referred to as Sagetown.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Racine<\/a>
Racine Journal Times Sunday Bulletin, June 25, 1939
This clipping explains all of Fanny’s names: Fanny Sage Stone Simmons. Two husbands — first Vincent Stone, a lawyer, and later John B. Simmons, one of the state’s leading attorneys.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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1013 Lake Avenue
Lyon-Simmons house where Fanny lived with her second husband<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s our Fanny — Mrs. Fanny Bethia Sage Stone Simmons, 1860 to 1936<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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