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Stockard, Henry Jerome

A. M., educator, poet, was born Sept. 15, 1858, in Chatham county, N. C. He is professor of English in the university of North Carolina. His contributions to literature have appeared in the Century, Youth's Companion, and other publications. STOCKARD, MRS. V. A. C., educator, college president, was born March 27, 1848, in Knox county, Mo. She received a thorough education, and for many years was engaged as a teacher in the public schools.

Her principal primary work was in the Richmond college, Missouri. For eight years she taught mathematics and French in the Central Female college of Lexington, Mo.; and since 1884 has been president of the Cottey college of Nevada, Mo. STOCKBRIDGE, FRANCIS BROWN, merchant, United States senator, was born in 1826 in Bath, Maine. In 1850 he settled at Saugatuck, Mich. He served as a representative in the Michigan legislature in 1869; and was a state senator in 1871. In 1874 he moved to Kalamazoo. In 1887 he was elected to the United States senate for term expiring in 1893.