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History. The village of Stockton is the youngest village in Jo Daviess County. [6] It was established after the Minnesota Northwestern Railroad decided to build a station in Section 2 of Stockton Township in 1886, which through mergers later became named the Chicago Great Western Railway. The railroad tracks were removed in the early 1970s.
Stockton's oldest son Richard was a lawyer and U.S. Senator representing New Jersey. His son, Commodore Robert Field Stockton, was a hero of the War of 1812 and in 1846 became the military governor of California and a Senator from New Jersey. A living relative from Joliet, Illinois is Anthony Stockton, an extremely well known and successful ...
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional ...
Pauline Kraft. Children. 1. James Lewis Kraft (/ ˈkræft /; December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor and the founder of Kraft Foods Inc. Kraft immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1902. He developed a patented pasteurization process for cheese, allowing it to be shipped long distances ...
Relatives. Louise Stockton (sister) Signature. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.
m. Richard Stockton Rush III (March 31, 1962 – June 18, 2023) was an American businessman who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company. After graduation from Princeton University, Rush worked for McDonnell Douglas as a flight test engineer on their F-15 program.
Kevin Jeffery Lincoln was born October 28, 1980, [1] in San Joaquin County, and raised in Stockton. [2][3] His mother was of Mexican descent and his father was African American. [2][3] In 2001, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served on Marine One during the administration of George W. Bush. [2][3] He returned to California, and worked in ...
UTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT) ZIP code. 61085. FIPS code. 17-085-72793. Stockton Township is one of 23 townships in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,453 and it contained 1,141 housing units.