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nected with 'Williain and Mary college; was graduated from the college, and also from Queen's college, Oxford, England, A.B., 1727-28, A.M., 17B0; subsequently studied theology, and was ordained to the ministry of the church of England. He was master of the William and Mary grammar school, 1731; chaplain of the Virginia house of burgesses, 1738; rector of Henrico (Va.) parish, 1736-52, and president of William and Mary college, 1752-55, serving also

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as rector of York-Hampton parish, York county, Va. He was married to his cousin, Judith, daughter of Thomas Randolph ofTuckahoe, Va., and granddaughter of William Randolph, mak- ing his home near " Varina,"' Henrico county. He published: The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia (1747; new ed., 1866), and The Nature and Extent of ChrisVs Redemp- tion, a sermon (1753). He died in Williamsburg, Va., Sept. 27, 1755.

STOCKBRIDQE, Francis Brown, senator, was born in Bath, Maine, April 9, 1826. He was edu- cated in the common schools; clerked in a whole- sale dry -goods house, Boston, Mass., 1843-47; in the latter year went to Chicago, 111., whei-e he acted as agent for a saw-mill at Saugatuck, Mich., until 1851, when he became proprietor of the mill, removing to Saugatuck; in 1861 formed a partnership with O. B. Johnson, and held ex- tensive interests in various lumber companies throughout Michigan, thereby acquiring an im- mense fortune. In 1863 he made his home in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he established one of the finest stock-farms of the northwest. He was a member of the state legislature, 1869; state senator, 1871; was elected U.S. senator from Michigan by the Republican legislature, serv- ing, 1887-93, and during his term was chair- man of the committee on fisheries and a member of the committee on naval affairs, railroads, and the census. He declined the appointment by President Grant as minister to the Hague and also the nomination for governor of Michigan. He died in Chicago, 111., April 30, 1894.

STOCKDALE, Thomas Ringland, representa- tive, was born in Greev county, P;i., March 28,

1828; son of William and Hannah (McQuaid) Stockdale. He was graduated from Jefferson college. Pa., A.B., 1856, A.M., 1859, and from the University of Mississippi, LL.B., 1859, and taught school in Mississippi, 1856-59. He was married, Feb. 3, 1857, to Frances J., daughter of Adam Wickes. He practised law at Woodville, Miss., 1859-61; enlisted in the Quitman guards at Holmesville, and was elected lieutenant in April, 1861; was promoted major and made ad- jutant, 16th Mississippi infantry. He resigned in 1862, and was made captain in the 4th Mis- sissippi cavalry and given command of Stock- dale's battalion. He was promoted major, 16th Mississippi cavalry, 1863, and lieutenant-colonel, 4th Mississippi cavahy, 1864, being severely wounded at Harrisburg near Tupelo, July 14, 1864, and was paroled with Forrest's army, IMay 12, 1865. He practised law in Summit, IMiss., 1865 to 1899; served a term on the bench of the state supreme court; was a Democratic presi- dential elector in 1873 and 1884, and a represen- tative from the sixth district of Mississip])i in the 50th-53d congresses, 1889-95. He died in Sum- mit, Miss., Jan. 8, 1899.

STOCKLEY, Charles Clark, governor of Del- aware, was born in Georgetown, Del., Nov. 6, 1819. He attended a private school in Phila- delphia, Pa., and engaged in mercantile business, first in Philadelphia and then in Millsboro, Del. He was appointed county treasurer in 1852, and in 1856 was elected sheriff of Sussex county. He served as state senator, 1873-77, and speaker of the senate, 1875-77, and then engaged in rail- roading and banking. He was governor of Dela- ware, 1882-86, and was appointed register of wills for Sussex county in 1891. He died in Millsboro, Del., April 20, 1901.

STOCKTON, Charles Herbert, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 13, 1845; son of the Rev. William Roger and Emma (Trant) Stockton; grandson of Charles and Eliza Stock- ton and of G. Gross and Hannah Trant. and a de- scendant of Richard Stockton of New Jersey, who settled first in Flushing. L.I. He was graduated from the U.S. Naval academy, Annapolis, Md., in 1865; was commissioned ensign, Dec. 1, 1866; promoted master, March 12, 1868; lieutenant, March 26, 1869, and lieutenant-commander, Nov. 15, 1881. He was married. Nov. 23. 1880. to Pau- line Lentilhon, daughter of Peter and Eliza (Len- tilhon) King of New York city, and his daughter, Cornelia Stockton, was married in 1900 to Lieut. Frederick A. Trant, U.S.N. He was made a member of the commission to select a naval sta- tion in Puget Sound, 1888; was in command of the Thetis, 1889-91, visiting the Arctic regions, as far as the mouth of the Mackenzie river; promoted commander, April 3, 1892; was second