California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


PHILIP K. STOCKTON.  Was born in Tipton, Iowa, and is thirty-three years of age. He arrived in California 
in 1859, on the hurricane deck of a "prairie schooner," and in due course of time entered the 
profession of journalism. He published the San Jose Guide and Sacramento Agriculturist, and has done 
editorial work on the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Sacramento Record-Union. He "held a case " on 
the old Union, and afterwards occupied a desk in the editorial room. He has reported four sessions of 
the Legislature for the Sacramento papers, and his opinions on parliamentary and legislative matters 
are treated with the highest consideration by the members. He is married, and is the father of two 
bright and lovely children. His health, however, will not permit him to continue in the fascinating 
profession of journalism, and as soon as the sessions of the Legislature adjourns he retires to his 
home, near St. Helena, Napa County, where he is cultivating an extensive valley farm. He, in company 
with E. B. Willis, reported the proceedings in full of the Constitutional Convention. He also performs a 
great amount of stenographic work in the Courts of the State. As a short-hand writer he has but few 
equals in California.