Thomas Hewlings Stockton, an American clergyman, born at Mount Holly, N. J., June 4, 1808, died in Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1868. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, but became a Methodist Protestant preacher, and was stationed at Baltimore in 1830. He was chaplain of the house of representatives from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1859 to 1861, and of the senate in 1862. In 1850-'55 he was associate pastor of St. John's Methodist church in Baltimore, and from 1856 of the church of the New Testament in Philadelphia. He compiled and published a Protestant Methodist hymn book, and issued the New Testament in paragraph form, and editions of the Bible, each book, by itself. His other works include "Floating Flowers from a Hidden Brook " (Philadelphia, 1844); "The Bible Alliance" (Cincinnati, 1850); " Ecclesiastical Opposition to the Bible " (Baltimore, 1853); "Sermons for the People" (Pittsburgh, 1854); "The Blessing" (Philadelphia, 1857); " Stand up for Jesus," a ballad with notes, illustrations, and music, and a few additional poems (Philadelphia, 1858); "Poems, with Autobiographical and other Notes" (1862); "The Peerless Magnificence of the Word of God" (1862); "Influence of the United States on Christendom" (1865); and from his manuscript, after his death, " The Book Above All" (1870). - See " Memory's Tribute to the Life, Character, and Work of Rev. Thomas H. Stockton," by the Rev. A. Clark (New York, 1869), and "Life, Character, and Death of Rev. Thomas II. Stockton," by the Rev. J. G. Wilson (Philadelphia, 1869).