The New Student's Reference Work/Stockton, Francis Richard
Stockton, Francis Richard, American author and humorist, was born at Philadelphia, April 5, 1834, and, after graduating at the high school of that city, took to journalism as a profession and to contributing to the magazines. Joining the staff of Scribner's Monthly, he wrote much for it and St. Nicholas, of which he became assistant-editor. In this appeared many of his delightful stories for the young. He became a prolific and industrious author, his stories revealing quaint but unobtrusive humor, with a brightly graphic quality and a literary style that commend his work to the educated and refined. His more prominent works embrace Rudder Grange, The Lady or the Tiger, Pomona's Travels, The Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Dusantes, The Great Stone of Sardis, A Bicycle of Cathay and The Captain's Toll-Gate. He died on April 20, 1902.