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Jay Stone
Jay Stone (1851–1932) was the 'Chief of the Correspondence Division' in the United States War Department in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a period without 'Assistant Secretaries',〔The office of Assistant Secretary of War was abolished between 1868 and 1890.〕 this was the second highest-ranking civil service position in this cabinet-level department, under the Chief Clerk (who sometimes served as Acting Secretary of War). Stone retired in 1928 as the department's longest-serving civilian employee (50 years).〔Gastonia (NC) Daily Gazette, Mar. 26, 1928, p. 5〕
Born in Bangor, Maine, Stone enlisted in the cavalry at 18 and went west.〔Obit. New York Times, Dec. 19, 1937〕 In 1877, he was chosen as "phonographic reporter and Indian interpreter" to Gen. Alfred H. Terry's Commission sent to negotiate with Sioux chief Sitting Bull, who had fled to Canada after winning the Battle of the Little Big Horn.〔Report of the Sitting Bull Indian Commission (Washington: Gov. Printing Office, 1877)〕 Stone had learned the new skill of stenography (then called phonography), and, according to a newspaper report, was the first stenographer ever employed by the War Department.〔Gastonia (NC) Daily Gazette, Mar. 26, 1928, p. 5〕 He continued for some time to work at Terry's headquarters,〔Sioux Co. Herald (Iowa), July 13, 1882, p. 6〕 but by 1881 was listed as the 'private secretary' to Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln (the President's son) in the administration of James Garfield. Stone was on Garfield's funeral train after his assassination that same year.〔Sacramento Daily, Sept. 22, 1881, p. 1〕
Secretary of War Lincoln stayed on in the administration of Chester Arthur, and Stone was promoted to 'Chief of the Correspondence Division'. In 1882 he became Acting Chief Clerk during a leave of absence of Chief Clerk John Tweedale.〔New York Times, Aug. 19, 1882〕 Stone would take dictation for three Secretaries of War before being sent to New York to serve as Chief Clerk of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the post from which he retired.〔Gastonia (NC) Daily Gazette, Mar. 26, 1928, p. 5〕
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