Editing Lewis Stone (section)

== Personal life ==
Stone owned a beach house in the [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles]]. In 1930 the oil drilling boom in the Venice Beach-Del Ray oil field caused him to file a lawsuit to stop the beach lease in order to prevent property damage and public nuisance. "The court ruled for Stone even though derricks ringed the beach ..."<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1093/jahist/jas079|title=Oil in the City: The Fall and Rise of Oil Drilling in Los Angeles |year=2012 |last1=Elkind |first1=Sarah S. |journal=Journal of American History |volume=99 |pages=82–90 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

In the 1930s he owned a 104-foot luxury yacht named ''Serena''. In 1937 the yacht was sold to Robert Paine Scripps (the father of [[Charles Scripps]]) and converted to a research vessel named the ''E. W. Scripps''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nelson, Stewart B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4BDXJ5ohoQC&pg=PA105 |page=105| title=Oceanographic Ships, Fore and Aft | year=1971 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy, U.S. Government Printing Office }}</ref>

Stone campaigned for the reelection of President [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1932.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1932-11-02 |title=Editorial |pages=6 |work=[[The Napa Valley Register|The Napa Daily Register]]}}</ref>