BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Charles Giles Stocking, Spring LakeCayuga co., New York

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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LEADING CITIZENS OF CAYUGA
COUNTY NEW YORK
BOSTON
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
1894

DR. CHARLES GILES STOCKING is the foremost man in his profession and
neighborhood, and is one of the oldest practitioners, not only in Spring
Lake, where he lives, and where he has so long been an active and useful
citizen, but throughout the county. He is a Democrat, and attends the
Methodist church, of which his honored progenitors were active adherents. He
was born on June 23, 1822, in Truxton, Cortland County, N.Y., where his
father, George A. Stocking, a native of Haddam, Conn., was then living.

 The boy remained at home, attended the district school, and worked in a
clock factory for his father till he was sixteen. One year he was in Penn
Yan, Yates County, N.Y., reporting for a paper. The next two years he
studied medicine with Dr. Griggs at Fosterville, and then attended Geneva
College for two years more, after which he studied another couple of years
with his brother Wesley, then located in Nanticoke, Broome County; and,
finally, was graduated at Berkshire Medical College, Mass., in the class of
1846, when he was twenty-four years old. The next year he assisted his
brother Wesley, but in 1851 opened an office for himself in Westbury. In
1862 he opened a branch office at Red Creek. Three years later he removed to
an Illinois town two hundred miles south-west of Chicago. In 1868 he came to
Spring Lake, where he has been ever since, except during six months when he
tried a second Western experience.

 Dr. Stocking was married in 1844, two years before his graduation, to Mary
Wood-hull, with whom he formed an attachment during his reportorial
experience at Penn Yan, she being a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Woodhull,
of that town. From this union have come two children. May is the wife of
John W. Knaggs, an insurance agent in Bay City, Mich., and the mother of
four children   Walter, Camilla, Roy, Mary. The other daughter, Dimies, is
the wife of Charles H. Denison, a lawyer, formerly of Bay City, but now of New
York. The beneficial influence in the community of such a man as Dr.
Stocking is incalculable.