Joseph A. Stockton (1779–1832) was a prominent Presbyterian minister in Western Pennsylvania.

[1] Joseph Stockton was born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on February 25, 1779.

[1][2] He attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and was tutored by John McMillan.

[4] He also taught grammar and mathematics at Allegheny Academy in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now Pittsburgh's North Side, with Mr. Caldwell teaching elocution and John Kelly of Dublin, Ireland as disciplinarian; Kelly later continued the school after Stockton's death.

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