Franz Theodore Stone (1813-1862)

Franz Theodore Stein

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Franz was an astronomer who fled Prussia after the Revolution of 1848 and settled at Devil's Lake, Michigan. There, he anglicized his name from "Stein" to "Stone". The "Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory" on Gibraltar Island, Put-in-Bay (originally the property of Jay Cooke) is named in his honor.

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Julius Frederick Stone

Julius F. Stone, of Columbus Ohio

1855-1947

Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory: Ohio State University's Biological Field Station on Lake Erie (1982)