(as Secretary) for the United States Naval Observatory from 1901 to 1903, served on the first Advisory Committee on Mathematics for the Carnegie Institution of Washington starting in 1902, and was a trustee of Harrisonburg Normal College (now James Madison University). He also maintained contacts with people of influence across the country, including his brother Melville E. Stone, the founder of the Chicago Daily News, who became well known as the General Manager of Associated Press. Fairfax County Public Library He retired on a stipend from the Carnegie Foundation in 1912 to a farm in Centreville, Virginia. Stone attended a local, little stone Methodist church on Braddock Road, now known as the Church of the Ascension, Anglican. His wife died in 1914, and he later married Mary Florence Brennan of Lansing, Michigan. He brought Mary back to Centreville, along with her two sisters, Grace and Elizabeth. He continued to be active in the educational, religious and social problems of his local community and the state. He served as Vice President of the Virginia State Teachers' Association, and was a leader in the movement to improve Virginia's public school system (in 1991, Ormond Stone Middle School was opened in Centreville to honor his work). In November 1929, Professor Stone and his friend, lawyer Thomas Keith, approached the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to request space to begin a library. The county provided no funds, but a small space in an old office in the courthouse. It was the first step in the eventual establishment of the Fairfax County Public Library System. Stone spent much of his last years gathering and organizing donated books for this small library. Death He died just six days after his eighty-sixth birthday, when he was struck and instantly killed by a C&P Telephone Company vehicle while walking along the road near his farm in Centreville. See also Ormond Stone Middle School Discoveries by Ormond Stone References External links Biographical sketch of Ormond Stone by the McCormick Observatory About Ormond Stone O. Stone @ Astrophysics Data System 1847 births 1933 deaths Scientists from Chicago People from Pekin, Illinois University of Virginia faculty People from Centreville, Virginia Pedestrian road incident deaths Road incident deaths in Virginia 19th-century American astronomers 20th-century American astronomers Scientists from Virginia 19th-century American mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians Racine College people Northwestern University faculty Mathematicians from Virginia Mathematicians from Illinois Recipients of the Lalande Prize