Thomas STOCKTON^[1]

1810 - 1860  (50 years)

• Name	Thomas STOCKTON
  Birth	10 Jan 1810	New Castle, New Castle, Delaware
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 May 1860	Cincinnati, Halmiton, Ohip
  Burial	Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati   [2]
  Person ID	I9420	HHDHA
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2015

  
  

  Father	Gov. Thomas STOCKTON,   b. 4 Apr 1781, New Castle, New Castle, Delaware d. 2 Mar 1846, New Castle, New Castle, Delaware (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Fidelia Rogerson JOHNS,   b. 18 Jan 1785, New Castle, New Castle, Delaware d. 20 Feb 1871, New Castle, New Castle, Delaware (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1805	New Castle, New Castle, Delaware
  Family ID	F3084	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary,   b. 1817, , , Conneticut d. Aft 1860, Clinton, Kentucky (Age > 44 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1836
  Children	1. Richard L. STOCKTON,   b. 1838, Georgia d. Abt 1864, Independent City, Saint Louis, Missouri (Age 26 years)   2. James A. STOCKTON,   b. 1839, Cinicinnati, Ohio d. 17 Nov 1904, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F3085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] Rootsweb.com, (Supported by Ancestry.com), World Connect Meddlers Family tree. The other example came from Thomas Stockton, a graduate of the West Point class of 1831. Stockton had resigned his commission in 1836 and served as a civil engineer throughout the South and Mid-West. As an officer in the Ohio militia, he explored the option of creating a state military academy and turned to Smith for guidance as the authority on the subject. Stockton explained in a letter to Smith in 1850 his intentions of giving a to Capital College in Columbus, Ohio, a Lutheran seminary which had received a collegiate charter from the state just months prior. Stockton hoped that adding a military professorship to the usual literary course might make the school one of practical utility. Smith did not see the school's lack of military structure as an obstacle. Many of the details which belong to the military schools may be extended to the ordinary college the tendency of which will be to give energy to the discipline whenever it is introduced, he ensured Stockton. But he also cautioned about not fully converting to an all-military system. Simply hiring a professor of military science might prove to be too expensive at a civilian college while the tendency to disorder will be increased by the students with arms in their hands due to the absence of martial discipline controlling the student body. Stockton, however, did not succeed in this military conversion. When the college officially opened that fall, it remained under the governance of the Lutheran church with no evidence of Smith's reforms put in place. Francis H. Smith: Architect of Antebellum Southern Military Schools and Educational Reform. A Dissertation by Bradford, Alexander Wineman. pp. 65-67.Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. [S39] Findagrave.com, (www.findagrave.com). Thomas Stockton Birth: Jan. 10, 1810 Delaware, USA Death: May 22, 1860 Ohio, USA