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. Cyc-Vol. IX Mary's College, opera house, Masonic "The Lady or the Tiger?" "The Late Mrs. Temple, ho hospitals, St. Agnes's Convent, Null," "The The waterworks, street railroad and electric and Mrs. Aleshine," and its sequel, "The light plants, National, State, and private banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Stockton is an important point for the shipment of wool and wheat. 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.
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Stockton (River-port of England)
a river-port of England, in the county of Durham, 11 miles E. N. E. of Darlington; on the left bank of the Tees; 4 miles above its mouth. Its Anglican churches include St. Thomas's (1712; restored 1859), with a tower 80 feet high, St. James's (1868), in French First Pointed style, with a spire of 130 feet, and St. John's (1872), a brick edifice of the basilica type; and of numerous non-established places of worship; the finest are the Roman Catholic St. Mary's (1842-1870), designed by the elder Pugin Pu in Early English style, and the United United Presbyterian St. Andrew's (1861). Other buildings are the town hall and assembly rooms (1735), the borough hall (1852), exchange (1874), postoffice (1878), free-masons' hall (1872), surgical hospital (1875), and a cattle market constructed (1876). Stockton is now an important railway center. Its harbor, also, improved by a cutting below the town (1808), carries on an extensive trade. A former residence of the Bishop of Durham, Stockton was taken by the Scotch in 1645, and seven years later its castle was demolished by Parliament. Pop. about 60,000.
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Stockton, Francis Richard
Francis Richard (1834-1902), an American author. He was a native of Philadelphia. After receiving a secondary education in the schools of his native city, he learned the business of wood-engraving. At thirty-eight he obtained a position in the editorial corps of the Philadelphia Post. Later he was connected with Hearth and Home of New York , Scribner's Monthly, and St. Nicholas. In 1879 he gave Rudder Grange to the press. It is an odd, whimsical account of an imaginary houseboat outing. Other volumes in the same quaint vein are The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, and its sequel, The Dusantes. The Great War Syndicate, Squirrel Inn, and The Adventures of Captain Horn are equally interesting. Among his short tales are The Lady or the Tiger, The Terminal Moraine, etc.
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Stoddard
CHARLES WARREN, General McClellan and for a year city and writing for the publishers. His poems include "Songs in Summer" (1857); "The King's Bell" (1862); "The Book of the East" (1867); "Lion's Cub" (1891; "Under the Evening Lamp," etc.; he wrote also "Life of Humboldt"; "Abraham Lincoln"; "Life of Washington Irving." He died in New York, May 12, 1903.
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Stoddard
ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW), an American novelist and poet; born in Mattapoisett, Mass., May 6, 1823. She was the wife of Richard H. Stoddard, and the author of three distinguished novels, "The Morgesons" (1862); "Two Men" (1865); "Temple House," illustrative of English character and scenery (1867); and "Lolly Dink's Doings," a story for young readers (1874); "Poems." She died Aug. 1, 1902.
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Stoddard (II)
WILLIAM OSBORN, an American author; born in Homer, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1835; was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1857, and after serving for a short time in the Civil War was made secretary to President Lincoln, which office he held till 1864 when he became United States marshal of Arkansas. Subsequently he engaged in business and journalism in New York City, where he also held several public offices under the municipal government. He was the author of numerous stories, sketches and poems, including "Life of Abraham Lincoln"; "Chuck Purdy"; "The Sword-Makers' Son"; "Ulric the Jarl"; "The Boy Lincoln" (1905); "Two Cadets With Washington" (1906); "In the Open" (1908); "Dab Kinzer" (1909); "The Captain of the Cat's Paw" (1914), etc.
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Stoddard (RICHARD HENRY an American poet)
RICHARD HENRY, an American poet; born in Hingham, Mass., July 2, 1825; attended schools in New York, and then worked in an iron foun- 1.1 RICHARD HENRY STODDARD dry for some years, meanwhile reading widely, especially in poetry. In 1849 he produced a small volume of poems only to suppress it afterward; but 1852 saw the birth of a sturdier collection. From 1853 to 1870 he served in the New York custom house, in 1870-1873 was clerk to
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Stoddard, Richard Henry
Richard Henry (1829-1903), an American poet and journalist. He was a native of Massachusetts. He went to New York while young, and for some time worked in an iron foundry. He soon began contributing short articles and poems to various periodicals and finally devoted his time entirely to literature. He was literary reviewer for the World, and later for the Mail and Express, in which capacity he did a vast amount of critical work and won a deserved reputation for careful and discriminating judgment. Among his books may be mentioned Footprints, Songs of Summer, The King's Bell, Life of Washington, The Lion's Cub, and Under the Evening Lamp.
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Stoddard, William Osborn
William Osborn (1835-), an American writer and journalist. He was born at Homer, New York , and was a graduate of the University of Rochester in 1857. Stoddard tried farming and reporting. In 1861 he served three months in the United States volunteers. He served President Lincoln in the capacity of private secretary 1861-4. Stoddard has written a number of interesting books of adventure and stories for boys. Named in order of their appearance, the more important are Life of Abraham Lincoln, The Talking Leaves, The Red Mustang, The Lost Gold of the Montezumas, and the Errand Boy or Andrew Jackson. His stories throw no little light on the manners and customs of the Indians of the Southwest.
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