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Stockdale, John Lark

educator, soldier, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 12, 1831, in Edgefield, S. C. During 1845- 49 he attended the Talladega Male High school; from 1851-54 he attended the Medical college of South Carolina; and subsequently attended the Augusta Medical college and the university of Nashville, Tennessee. For many years he taught in the Talladega Male High school; and during 1861-65 was a surgeon in the confederate states army, with rank of major. He has been registrar and master in chancery of the fourteenth district N.

E. chancery division; president of the Clay county Medical society; and is prominent in various other medical bodies. STOCKDALE, THOMAS RINGLAND, soldier, educator, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected from Mississippi to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond, and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

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