Harlan Fiske Stone was born on October 11, 1872, in a modest cottage 1.7 miles southeast of here on Horseshoe Road. He graduated from Amherst College and Columbia Law School, and returned to Columbia as Dean from 1910 to 1924. Attorney General in President Coolidge’s Cabinet, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court in 1924 and Chief Justice in 1941, serving until his death on April 22, 1946. A teacher, lawyer, judge, and judicial craftsman of the highest order, he held the affection and respect of the lawyers of the nation.