Mary Stone

Mary Stone (May 1, 1873 – December 30, 1954), also known as Shi Meiyu , was a doctor of medicine graduated from the University of Michigan. She founded Danforth Memorial Hospital in Kiukiang (now called the Women and Children's Hospital of Jiujiang).

Life Born to a Chinese Christian family in Kiukiang (now called Jiujiang) on May 1, 1873, Stone's father was a Methodist pastor and mother was the principal of a Methodist school for girls. She attended Rulison-Fish Memorial School (now called Jiujiang Tongwen Middle School), established by American missionary Gertrude Howe, in Jiujiang for ten years.

In 1892, she was brought to Ann Arbor, Michigan by Gertrude Howe, together with Ida Kahn (Kang Cheng), She is also a member of the China Continuation Committee of the National Missionary Conference after the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference of 1910.

She returned to California after World War II, where she later died on December 30, 1954, in Pasadena at the age of 81.