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Joseph A. Stockton
Born	(1779-02-25)February 25, 1779 Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Died	October 29, 1832(1832-10-29) (aged 53) Baltimore, Maryland
Spouse	Esther Clark ​(m. 1800)​

Joseph A. Stockton (1779–1832) was a prominent Presbyterian minister in Western Pennsylvania. He founded Meadville Academy, which later became Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was also President of University of Pittsburgh.

Biography

Joseph Stockton was born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on February 25, 1779.

He attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and was tutored by John McMillan. He was an early member of the Philo Literary Society.

He married Esther Clark on May 8, 1800.

He worked for a time as an assistant tutor at Jefferson College.

He also taught grammar and mathematics at Allegheny Academy in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now Pittsburgh's North Side, with Mr. Caldwell teaching elocution and John Kelly of Dublin, Ireland as disciplinarian; Kelly later continued the school after Stockton's death. Stockton authored the Western Calculator and Western Spelling Book, used at the Academy as textbooks. His most famous student at the Academy was Stephen Foster, later America's first professional composer, and Foster's brother Morrison described Stockton as: "a perfect tutor. He was learned, he was firm, he was amiable, and he was thorough and practical."

Stockton died from cholera in Baltimore on October 29, 1832.

References

1. ^ Parke, John E. (1886). "Rev. Joseph Stockton, A.M.". Recollections of seventy years and historical gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Rand, Avery & Company. pp. 258–262.
2. ^ Sprague, William B. (1858). Annals of the American Pulpit; or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations. Vol. IV. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. p. 243. Retrieved January 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
3. Smith, Joseph (1857). History of Jefferson College: Including an Account of the Early Log Cabin Schools, and the Canonsburg Academy. Pittsburgh: J.T. Shryock. pp. 40.
4. Smith, Joseph (1857). History of Jefferson College: Including an Account of the Early Log Cabin Schools, and the Canonsburg Academy. Pittsburgh: J.T. Shryock. pp. 38.
5. "Stockton Family Papers". Digital Pitt. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
6. O'Connell, JoAnne (2016). The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 55–56. ISBN 9781442253865. Retrieved January 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.

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