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Stockton (City and county-seat of San)

a city and county-seat of San Joaquin co., Cal.; at the head of Stockton Channel, an arm of San Joaquin river, and on the Southern Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Stockton Terminal and Eastern, the Tidewater Southern, and the Western Pacific railroads; 63 miles E. by N. of San Francisco. Here are the State Insane Asylum, a high school, the Hazleton Public Library, a private sanitarium, St.

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The business of the city includes the furnishing of supplies to the farmers of the San Joaquin valley. Stockton has iron foundries, tanneries, lumber and paper mills, flour mills, machine shops, a terra-cotta plant, car works, warehouses, agricultural implement works, etc. It was established in 1849, and named after Robert Field Stockton, of the United States Navy, who seized California for the Union. Pop. (1910) 23,- 253; (1920) 40,296.