Joseph Champlin Stone
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Joseph Champlin Stone (July 30, 1829 - December 3, 1902) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
Born in Westport, New York, Stone moved to Iowa Territory in 1844. He attended the public schools. He was graduated from the medical department of Saint Louis University, Missouri, in 1854 and practiced. During the Civil War enlisted as a private in the Union Army and was made adjutant of the First Iowa Cavalry. He was promoted to captain and assistant adjutant general of Volunteers in 1862 and served until the end of the war. He resumed the practice of medicine in Burlington, Iowa.
Stone was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879). He again engaged in the practice of his profession. He died in Burlington, Iowa, December 3, 1902. He was interred in Aspen Grove Cemetery.
