Kinzea Stone (1851-1925) was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and died in Georgetown, Kentucky. He opened a small grocery store in Georgetown, Kentucky, during 1876 and made his wealth in the wholesale grocery business. Stone married Sallie Belle Hoover in 1878. In the late 1870s, he established the Maud S. Tobacco Company and incorporated the Old Kentucky Tobacco Company in 1892. That same year, he founded the Georgetown Water Company, which operated the works for Georgetown and expanded into electrical generation (supplying the city's first electric lights). He later became a horseman and won the Kentucky Derby in 1891. In 1908, Stone became a founder of the Lexington Motor Car Company, becoming Vice President and majority stockholder. He was also a founder and director of the Phoenix & Third National Bank and the Phoenix & Third Trust Company in Lexington, Kentucky, during the 1910s. Stone was the Mayor of Georgetown from 1914 to 1918. He was the brother of M. Bettie Bell, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, who contributed to the early growth of Christian Science in Chicago and was a founding member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago (1886). In 1885, Bell wrote to Mary Baker Eddy about her brother's interest in Christian Science. There is no record of Stone studying with Mary Baker Eddy or uniting with The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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