Kern County
Biographies
JAMES EDGAR
STONE
JAMES EDGAR STONE. - The Kimball-Stone Drug Company ranks among the leading business concerns of Bakersfield. The present organization, which dates from 1904, has been engaged in business since 1910 at No. 1413 Nineteenth Street, where the first floor is utilized for the various departments of the trade and in addition the basement furnishes storage facilities for a large reserve stock. The modern stock of the company, valued at 25,000 includes everything known to the science of medicine. The firm carries a full line of pure drugs and druggists' sundries, patent medicines of all kinds, toilet articles, perfumes, brushes and articles to be found in a first-class shop of the kind. The compounding of prescriptions is a special feature of the business. For that purpose the freshest and purest of drugs are kept in stock. The prescription counter, unsurpassed by any in the state, is open to the public view by means of plate glass. The entire store is a model of neatness and system and indicates the thrifty qualities of the proprietors, whose skill as pharmacists is attested by their high reputation throughout the community.
The junior member of the firm, James Edgar Stone, was born at Warrensburg, Mo., July 23, 1881, and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Emery) Stone, natives respectively of Kentucky and Indiana, and early settlers of Missouri, where they were married and where they since have made their home. The father has engaged in raising live stock and still makes a specialty of handling livestock, through which occupation coupled with general farming, he has been enabled to reach financial success. In his family there are six children, the eldest of whom, Nellie May, is the wife of W. I. Hyer, an employee of a large packing house at Warrensburg, Mo. The eldest son, John William Jr., is engaged in the drug business in Kansas City. The third and sixth among the children, Josephine B. and Pansy K., are teachers in the Bakersfield public schools. The fifth, Luther Brooks, is engaged in the stock business with his father. James Edgar, the fourth in order of birth, received his education in Warrensburg, where for three years he was a student in the Missouri State Normal, after he had completed the regular course in the public schools.
At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Stone matriculated in the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, where for two years he studied with industry, diligence, and intelligence. At the expiration of that time he was graduated with the degree of Ph. G., as a member of the class of 1904, in which he had the honor of serving as vice-president. During the autumn of the same year he came to Bakersfield and purchased the interest of Dr. B. E. Morrow-Kimball Drug Company, the predecessor of the Kimball-Stone Drug Company. After some years at the old stand the firm removed in 1910 to their present location, where they have a modern and model shop, equipped with every facility and improvement designed to render the business satisfactory and successful. Customers are treated with the most gracious courtesy and are given every possible attention. The Johnson line of remedies and toilet articles is prepared at the manufacturing table, back of which is a room for reserve stock and in the basement a large reserve stock also is maintained. The firm makes a specialty of poisoned wheat manufactured for the extermination of squirrels and gophers. Their stock of Parke-Davis goods is the largest in the San Joaquin Valley. Among their bacteriological serums is Dr. Schaffer's phylacogeus, manufactured by a Bakersfield physician and already having to its credit many astonishing cures.
The marriage of Mr. Stone took place in Kern County and united him with Miss Mae Mouliot, daughter of Martin Mouliot, a stockman now residing in Bakersfield. Born at Tchachapi, Mrs. Stone received her early education in the Bakersfield schools and later completed a course of study in the Chico State Normal. For three years prior to her marriage she taught in the schools of East Bakersfield with gratifying success. Politically Mr. Stone has been stanch in his allegiance to the Democratic Party, and has maintained a warm interest in public affairs. Since coming to Bakersfield he has been active in Masonry, and is now a Shriner of the York Rite. Personally he is decidedly popular with everyone with whom he has business dealings or social relations.
Transcribed
by Sally Kaleta.
Source:
"History of Kern County with Biographical Sketches," Wallace M.
Morgan, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914, Pages 233-234.
© 2014 Sally Kaleta.
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