When Raymond Canada Stockton was born on 31 July 1874, in Knightstown, Wayne Township, Henry, Indiana, United States, his father, James H Stockton, was 27 and his mother, Catharine Cornell Ballinger, was 24. He married Ethel Adele Heath on 12 June 1901, in Marion, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, United States for about 10 years and Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States in 1930. He died on 14 March 1938, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Cypress View Mausoleum And Crematory, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Historical Boundaries 1888: Kittitas, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Kittitas, Washington, United States 1899: Chelan, Washington, United States
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Stockton (Cheshire, Herefordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire), Stockton Heath (Cheshire), Stockton on Tees (Durham), Stockton on Teme (Worcestershire), Stockton on the Forest (North Yorkshire), Great Staughton (Huntingdonshire), Little Staughton (Bedfordshire), or Stoughton (Leicestershire, Surrey, Sussex). The placenames derive from Old English stoc ‘place, secondary settlement’ or stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Stoughton .
History: A family of this name were established in America by an English Quaker, Richard Stockton, in 1656. He bought large tracts of land around Princeton, NJ, and founded an estate on which his great-grandson, Richard Stockton (1730–81), a leading colonial lawyer and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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