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Stockton (FRANCIS RICHARD an American)

FRANCIS RICHARD, an American author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 5, 1834; became an engraver and draughtsman; was connected with the Philadelphia "Post," and with "Hearth and Home," New York; joined the editorial staff of "Scribner's Monthly," and became assistant editor of "St. Nicholas"; his earliest writings were odd tales for children, but he attained a high reputation as a writer of short stories, marked by quaintness of subject and treatment and by dry humor. The first of these were the "Rudder Grange Stories," followed by very many others, of which, perhaps, the best known are:

F. R. STOCKTON Dusantes," "The Hundredth Man," "A Tale of Negative Gravity," etc. He died in Washington, D. C., April 20, 1902.