When Albert Stocker was born on 18 July 1811, in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, James Hill Stocker, was 32 and his mother, Abigail Pepper, was 28. He married Lydia Rebecca Peet in 1838. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Salem Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He died on 23 March 1878, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Hamlin, Salem Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker): topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 3) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker); Dutch: occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stocker ‘jailer’.
English: occupational name from Middle English stokker ‘one who sells stockfish’ (fish dried in the air without salt). This was the usual source of the name in medieval London, where a bylaw of 1419 stated that no stokker should board a ship to buy fish (presumably in order to forestall the market).
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