Joseph Stockton

Joseph A. Stockton was a prominent Presbyterian minister in Western Pennsylvania. He founded Meadville Academy, which later became Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.[1] He was also President of University of Pittsburgh.[1]

Joseph A. Stockton

He attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and was tutored by John McMillan.[1] He was an early member of the Philo Literary Society.[2]

He worked for a time as an assistant tutor at Jefferson College.[3]

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.[4] 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."[5]

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. 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.
  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. 38.
  4. "Stockton Family Papers | Digital Pitt". digital.library.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  5. O'Connell, JoAnne (2016). The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 55–56. ISBN 9781442253865.


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