Stockton (Thomas C.) Papers, 1850-1910

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Summary

Title:
Thomas C. Stockton Papers
Dates:
1850-1910
Creators:
Stockton, Thomas Coates, 1837-1910
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.
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Thomas C. Stockton Papers, MS 40, San Diego History Center Document Collection, San Diego, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Processing information:

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.

Arrangement:

Collection is arranged by subject.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Samantha Mills
Sponsor:
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.
Date Prepared:
April 4, 2013
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-04-05T14:37-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

The San Diego History Center (SDHC) holds the copyright to any unpublished materials. SDHC Library regulations do apply.

Preferred citation:

Thomas C. Stockton Papers, MS 40, San Diego History Center Document Collection, San Diego, CA.

Location of this collection:
1649 El Prado, Suite 3
San Diego, CA 92101, US
Contact:
(619) 232-6203
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