| Short Name: | John H. Stockton |
| Full Name: | Stockton, John H., 1813-1877 |
| Birth Year: | 1813 |
| Death Year: | 1877 |
Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875.
Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911
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Stockton, John Hart, b. April 19, 1813, and d. March 25, 1877, was the author of "Come, every soul by sin oppressed" (Invitation), in I.D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878, and of "The Cross, the Cross, the blood¬stained Cross" (Good Friday) in the same collection.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)