Lucinda Stone (1814-1900) was born in Hinesburg, Vermont, and died in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was an educator, suffragist, and author, known as the "Mother of Clubs." She was educated in Vermont at Middlebury Female Seminary and Hinesburg Academy and was the Academy's first female graduate. In 1843, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where her husband, James A. B. Stone, had taken a position as the principal of Kalamazoo College. Lucinda Stone was hired as a teacher at the college, eventually becoming head of the ladies' department. In 1863, the Stones resigned from the college because of criticism over their advancement of women's education. Lucinda then founded her own school, Kalamazoo Young Ladies' Seminary. She taught at the school until the building burned down in 1866. After that, she focused on taking her students on educational trips to Europe, as well as founding several clubs: the Twentieth Century Club, the Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs, the Women's Press Association, and the Frederick Douglass Club for people of color. In 1885, Annie M. Knott wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to formally introduce Stone, who became interested in Christian Science after reading Science and Health with Key to Scriptures.

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