. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. ot fall short in the scale of business ability. Mr. Stockton was a native of Tippecanoe County, Indiana,bom April 19, 1835, and died January 9, 1911. He received a goodpractical education, being first a student in the local schools andthen at Wabash College. He was an agriculturist and stockmanand then engaged in mercantile life and finally in the real estatebtisiness in West Lafayette. Indiana. Politically he was
. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. ot fall short in the scale of business ability. Mr. Stockton was a native of Tippecanoe County, Indiana,bom April 19, 1835, and died January 9, 1911. He received a goodpractical education, being first a student in the local schools andthen at Wabash College. He was an agriculturist and stockmanand then engaged in mercantile life and finally in the real estatebtisiness in West Lafayette. Indiana. Politically he was a democratand fraternally he was a Mason, being a member of the chapter atLafayette. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Stockton v^as a gentleman of pleasing personality and addressand of strict business principles. He died in the City of Chicago. His first marriage was to Miss Nancy Whitsel and was cele-brated in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, October 13, 1859. She diedJuly 26, 1866, and her remains are interred in the Hebron Cemeteryin Tippecanoe County. Five children were born to this union, foursons and one daughter, only two of them now living: Edward, a. WILLIAM SLMS STOCKTON JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES 349 resident of Chicago and engaged in commercial life, received a goodeducation and was a student at Purdue University; Frank, a resi-dent of the State of Washington at Greenacre, where he has a finefruit ranch, is married and has one daughter. Mr. Stockton married for his second wife Miss Almira Makeeveron October 15, 1867. Three children, two sons and one daughter,were born, and the only one now living is the son, Jay WilliamMakeever Stockton, a resident of Newton Township, Jasper County,an agriculturist, and living on the old Makeever homestead. He waseducated in the common schools and took a business course in a com-mercial college at Lafayette. He married Miss Stella Perkins, andthey have four living children: John Judson, in the seventh gradeand takin
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