Fanny Stone was a writer in Racine who published: Racine, Belle City of the Lakes, and Racine County in 1916. She is listed as the supervising editor. She would have been 56 years old at the time.
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.
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.
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.
The original Sage house
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.)
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.
Mrs. Fanny Stone is the vice president of the Taylor Orphan Asylum
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.
Lyon-Simmons house where Fanny lived with her second husband
