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STOCKTON , a See also:city and the See also:county seat of See also:San Joaquin county in central See also:California, U.S.A., at the See also:head of the Stockton channel of the San Joaquin See also:river, about 48 in. S.E. of See also:Sacramento. Pop. (1900), 17,506, of whom 4057 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 23,253. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the Western Pacific and the See also:Southern Pacific See also:railways, and has also a considerable river See also:trade with San Francisco. It is at the head of See also:regular See also:navigation on the river; at high See also:water boats occasionally go to Hills See also:Ferry, 150 M. beyond Stockton. The channel has been much improved by the Federal See also:government since 1877. Stockton has a perfectly level site, broad streets and a regular See also:plan. In the city are a See also:good public library, the San Joaquin county See also:law library, St See also:Agnes See also:academy, St See also:Mary's See also:college, a See also:children's See also:home (1896; under the Ladies' Aid Society), St See also:Joseph's home (1899) for the aged, and St Joseph's See also:hospital (1899), both under the Sisters of St See also:Dominic, the Pacific hospital, a county hospital and a See also:state hospital for the insane (1851). Situated in the See also:great valley of the San Joaquin, in the midst of a
See also:rich agricultural region, it is one of the largest See also:grain, See also:vegetable and See also:fruit markets of the See also:West. It manufactures See also:flour, See also:lumber, agricultural machinery and implements, &c. Its factory product in 1905 was valued at $8,029,490, or 45.3% more than in 1900. Stockton See also:rose into prominence in the See also:early See also:mining days. A See also:settlement named Tuleberg, later called New See also:Albany, stood on the city site in 1847; its future was See also:precarious when the See also:discovery of See also:gold insured its prosperity. In the See also:spring of 1849 a See also:town was laid out and the See also:present name adopted in See also:honour of See also:Commander See also:Robert See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field Stockton (1795-1866), who with See also:Colonel See also:John C. See also:Fremont and See also:General See also:Stephen W. See also:Kearny had gained See also:possession of California for the See also:United States during the See also:war with See also:Mexico. In 185o Stockton became the county-seat and was chartered as a city.
STOCKTON-ON-See also:TEES, a See also:market town, municipal and See also:parliamentary See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough, and See also:port of See also:Durham, See also:England, on the N. See also:bank of the Tees, 51 M. above its mouth, and on the See also:North Eastern railway, 236 M. N. by W. from See also:London. Pop. (1901), 51,478. The parliamentary borough extends across the river into See also:Yorkshire, to include the municipal borough of Thornaby-on-Tees. At See also:Norton, ' m. north, the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Mary, formerly collegiate, shows See also:fine See also:Norman See also:work. The See also:chief buildings are a town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, with See also:clock-See also:tower and See also:spire, borough-hall, See also:exchange and public library. The quays are accessible to vessels See also:drawing 20 ft. at high water spring tides. There are extensive See also:steel See also:works, See also:blasting furnaces, See also:iron and See also:brass foundries and See also:rolling-See also:mills; and iron See also:shipbuilding is an important See also:industry. There are also See also:sailcloth works, See also:potteries, breweries and See also:brick and See also:tile works. Exports (iron manufactures, See also:coal and agricultural produce) were valued at £435,439 in 'goo; imports (See also:timber, iron, grain, &c.) at £280,371; trade being chiefly with See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and the Baltic ports, and coastal. The parliamentary borough returns one member. The municipal borough is under a See also:mayor, 10 aldermen and 30 councillors, and has an See also:area of 2935 acres.
Tt would seem that Stockton (Stokton) See also:grew up See also:round the See also:castle of the bishops of Durham, to whom the town belonged even before their See also:purchase of the earldom of Sadberge. In 1183 the Boldon See also:Book records that the whole town rendered one milch cow and the ferry twenty pence to the See also:bishop. The castle was probably built between 1183 and 1214. See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King John visited Bishop See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip of See also:Poitou (d. 1208) there and is said to have granted the See also:place a See also:charter similar to that of See also:Hartlepool in 1214. Of this, however, no traces remain, the rights of the borough, which must have come into existence during the 13th See also:century, being purely prescriptive. Stockton was divided into two parts: the " town," governed by the See also:bailiff of the bishop and afterwards by the See also:vicar and vestrymen, and the borough, under a mayor and See also:alder-men. The bishop's bailiff was also the keeper of the castle, though in the 17th century the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office belonged to the borough-bailiff. The borough is first mentioned in 1283, when the king took See also:tallage from it during the vacancy of the see. It occurs again in a See also:record of 1328, and in 1344 the mayor and bailiffs entered into an agreement with the mayor and bailiffs of New-castle for the regulation of trade between the two places. Bishop See also:Hatfield's survey (1377-1382) gives a See also:list of tenants within the borough: 22 burgages and 15 See also:half-burgages are mentioned, the See also:rent of which varies from twenty-two pence to a See also:penny half-penny. In 1644 the parliamentary troops besieged and captured the castle, which was dismantled in 1652. In 1666 the See also:population was only J44, for Stockton was an isolated place with little trade. It became a parliamentary borough, returning one member, in 1867. In 1310 the bishop gave the town a market and a See also:fair during the See also:octave of the See also:Translation of St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas the See also:Martyr, reserving to himself the tolls; Bishop See also:Morton revived the market, which had lapsed at the beginning of the 17th century. See also:Camden speaks of Stockton as a neat, well-built See also:corporation town and especially commends the See also:ale brewed there and sent to various parts of the See also:country. The importance of Stockton as a port See also:dates from the end of the 18th century, when there was a considerable trade in See also:lead, See also:dairy- produce and timber.
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