Stockton
Stockton names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stockton ROBERT FIELD, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT FIELD, an American naval officer; born in Princeton, N. J., Aug. 20, 1795; entered the navy in 1810; was promoted lieutenant in 1814; engaged in the war with Tripoli in 1814-1815; went to Africa in 1821 in command of the "Erie," where he secured the territory forming the present republic of Liberia; was sent against the pirates and slavers in the West Indies in the fall of the same year; and served as flag-officer in the Mediterranean under Preble in 1838-1839. He was one of the earliest advocates of a steam navy; drew the plans for the steam sloop of war "Princeton," the explosion of one of whose guns at Washington in 1844 caused the death of the secretaries of war and the navy; was actively interested in the construction of the Delaware and Raritan canal; and during the Mexican War, as commander of the naval forces on the Pacific, took possession of California in the name of the United States. On his return in 1850 he resigned his commission; entered politics; and in 1851 was elected to the United States Senate, where he introduced and put through a bill for the abolition of flogging in the navy, and also urged the adoption of measures for coast defense. In 1853, however, he retired from the Senate, and devoted himself to the development of the Delaware and Raritan canal. He died in Princeton, N. J., Oct. 7, 1866. an American author; born in Rochester, librarian; he did also much reviewing N. Y., Aug. 7, 1843; studied (without graduating) at the University of California; was for some time an actor; for seven years special traveling correspondent of the San Francisco "Chronicle," visiting nearly every quarter of the globe, including five years in the South Seas; from 1885 to 1887 Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame College, Indiana; and from 1889 at the Catholic University of America. Among his publications are: "South Sea Idylls" (1873); "Summer Cruising in the South Seas" (1874); "Mashallah" (1880); "The Lepers of Molokai" (1885); "Lazy Letters from Low Latitudes" (1894); "Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska" (1899); "Hither and Yon"; "The Dream Lady"; etc. He died April 24, 1909.
Stockton a city and county-seat of San Joaquin co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Stockton a river-port of England
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Stockton FRANCIS RICHARD, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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 the "Rudder Grange of these were Stories," followed by very many others, of which, perhaps, the best known are: Casting Awa Away of Mrs. Lecks F. R. STOCKTON Dusantes," "The Hundredth Man," "A Tale of Negative Gravity," etc. He died in Washington, D. C., April 20, 1902.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 gave Stockton, California 40,296 people and described it as a wool and wheat shipping point; the city now has roughly 320,000 residents, and the deep-water channel completed in 1933 turned it into an ocean-going inland port. Its best-known modern moment came in 2012, when Stockton filed for Chapter 9 protection as the largest American city ever to declare bankruptcy at that date, emerging in 2015; the State Insane Asylum praised in the entry closed as Stockton State Hospital in 1995. Stockton-on-Tees in Durham, called "an important railway center" with about 60,000 people, is now a borough town of some 80,000-plus whose shipyards and heavy industry have gone, and it markets itself on the 1825 Stockton and Darlington Railway that the entry does not mention. Of the two authors, Robert F. Stockton's seizure of California and his role in the Liberia colonization scheme are now read far more critically, while Frank R. Stockton survives almost entirely on one story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?", still a school anthology staple.
Written for this edition, 2026.