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Rev. Thomas Hewlings Stockton
(Born: June 4, 1808 - Died: October 9, 1868)
American clergyman, editor and minor poet. He was born in Mount Holly, NJ. He married Anna Roe McCurdy in February 1828, He was a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church. He served as the congressional Chaplin during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, and he led an opening prayer at the ceremony in which Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. He was a vocal abolitionist and a strong supporter of social reform. He was the editor of the Christian World, a non-denominational magazine. He died in Philadelphia, PA, and was buried there in Mount Moriah Cemetery.
- Notice from “Autography”
- “Thos. H. Stockton” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
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- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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