STONE, FRED

STONE, FRED. Songwriter (22 January 1873 in Chatham, Ontario; January 1912 in Detroit, Michigan). His family moved to Detroit, Michigan, when he was a child. Little is known of his early career. During the early 1890s he became a member of the Detroit City Band, under the leadership of John (Jack) W. Johnson, and he played piano in Theodore Finney's Famous Dance Orchestra. He began to publish songs during the 1890s, of which the best known were Bos'n rag...