Stockton

Stockton, FRANCIS RICHARD, an American author, was born at Philadelphia, 5th April 1834, was engraver and journalist, and became assistant-editor of St Nicholas. He first attracted notice by his fantastic stories for children, which fill several volumes; but he is best known by all classes of readers as author of Rudder Grange (1879). Later works are The Late Mrs Null, The Casting Away of Mrs Lecks and Mrs Aleshine, and The Dusantes, The Hundredth Man, The Schooner Merry Chanter (1890), The Squirrel Inn (1891), Pomona's Travels (1894), The Shadrach (1895), The Buccaneers and Pirates of four Coasts (1898), and Captain Chap (1898).