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MS 40
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Title: Thomas C. Stockton Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS 40
Contributing Institution:
San Diego History Center Document Collection
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1850-1910
Abstract: This collection contains personal, business, and real estate papers of Thomas C. Stockton, one of the first medical doctors
in San Diego County in the late nineteenth century.
creator:
Stockton, Thomas Coates, 1837-1910
This collection is open for research.
The San Diego History Center (SDHC) holds the copyright to any unpublished materials. SDHC Library regulations do apply.
Collection processed by Samantha Mills on April 4, 2013.
Collection processed as part of grant project supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) with generous
funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Thomas C. Stockton Papers, MS 40, San Diego History Center Document Collection, San Diego, CA.
This collection contains personal, business, and real estate papers of Thomas C. Stockton, one of the first medical doctors
in San Diego County. Personal papers include correspondence and financial papers. There are fee tables, contracts, and partnerships
pertaining to his medical practice, as well as deeds, certificates of redemption, and contracts from his dealings in real
estate. In addition, this collection contains some correspondence, deeds, and receipts pertaining to Thomas and Minnie Stockton’s
interactions with the McCracken family.
Collection is arranged by subject.
Biographical / Historical Notes
Thomas Coates Stockton was born in 1837 in Smith Creek, New Brunswick, Canada. He trained first as a teacher and then studied
medicine at Harvard University and the Bellevue Hospital medical school in New York. He graduated in 1866 and moved to San
Diego in 1869, where he met Minnie Grey Slade. Minnie was born in Buffalo, New York to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Slade, and was
sent to San Diego in 1870 to improve her health. She and Thomas Stockton married on June 5, 1873. They had one surviving child,
Mabel Stockton Eckhardt.
Thomas and Minnie initially lived in a residence attached to Thomas’s medical office at 5th and E Streets. They later moved
to a separate home on I Street, between 10th and 11th. Thomas Stockton helped organize the San Diego County Medical Society
in 1870, and in 1879 he established San Diego’s first private hospital at Columbia Street and First Avenue, in partnership
with Dr. R.C. Remondino. Thomas was appointed coroner of San Diego County in 1875. He was a public administrator from 1880-1883,
and served periodically as City Health Officer, his last term being in 1898. In addition to his medical practice, Thomas Stockton
was active in real estate investment and development throughout the City of San Diego.
Thomas died March 1, 1910, after years of illness and paralysis. Minnie survived him by 23 years, dying January 29, 1933.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Fletcher-Salmons Investment Company.
McCracken, James
McCraken, Sallie
San Dieguito Reclamation Company.
Stockton, Minnie Grey Slade
Stockton, Thomas Coates, 1837-1910
Abstracts of title
Complaints (Civil procedure)
Deeds
Medicine
Medicine -- Practice
Real property
Receipts (Acknowledgements)
San Diego (Calif.)