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Lester Napier Stockard, shipping executive, was born in Pensacola, Fla., Mar. 17, 1893, son of Samuel and Lucy (Williams) Stockard. His first paternal American ancestor was John Stockard , who came to this country from England in the first half of the 18th century. From him and his wife, Elizabeth Collins, the descent was through James and Ellen Trousdale, William and Le ah Mann, and Samuel Stewart and Myra Lester, the grandparents of Lester N. Stockard. His father was a railroad executive and engineer. The son received his education at public schools in Pensacola, and, after working in a Pensacola bank for a time, he began his career in the steamship business, joining Moore-McCormack Lines in 1920. After working in the bill of lading department for two years, he was transferred to the chartering department in 1922, and became its manager in 1924. In 1935 he was made vice-president in charge of chartering, and he maintained that position at the company's New York City offices until he resigned in 1936. With Thor Eckert he formed the steamship agency of Eckert & Stockard, Inc., in that year and continued in it until 1939. Stockard organized an independent enterprise in 1939. The Stockard Steamship Corp., steamship owners, operators, and agents, with offices in New York City, New Orleans, La., Philadelphia, Pa., and Baltimore, Md. He was president and a director of that company until the close of his life. During the Second World War his company acted as general agent for the War Shipping Administration and in that capacity was responsible for the management of as many as twenty vessels at a time. In addition to his work with The Stockard Steamship Corp., Stockard was a director of an affiliated corporation, Stockard Shipping and Terminal Corp., established in 1954, and he was president and director of Trans-Pacific Navigation C o., Manila, Philippine Islands, and of Pierdel Terminal Corp., New York City, from 1945 until his death. He was a member of the New Orleans Produce Exchange. During the First World War he served as a lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and was stationed in the United States. Stockard was a member of the Blind Brook Club, Portchester, N.Y ., Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Everglades and Bath and Tennis clubs of Palm Beach, Fla. , Oslo Golf, New York Athletic, Metropolitan, and Whitehall clubs of New York City and area , and the Pickwick Club and International House, New Orleans. In religion he was an Episcopalian, and in politics an independent. Reading, playing bridge and golf, hunting, and fishing w ere his recreational interests. He was married in New York City, Feb. 4, 1933, to Mary Alice , daughter of Matthew Aloysius English of that city, a politician, and had two daughters: Lesly, who married John Barker Hickox, and Susan Williams. He died in Palm Beach, Fla., Apr. 14 , 1960. [Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography]
from New York Times, April 15, 1960, page 23:
PALM BEACH, Fla., April 14 -- Lester N. Stockard of 10 Golfview Road, steamship owner and executive, died here today, after a long illness, at the age of 67.
Mr. Stockard was president of the Stockard Steamship Corporation, a concern with offices in New York and New Orleans. An affiliated corporation, which also bears his name, offers steamship agency services in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In World War I he was a flyer in the Aviation Section of the Army Signal Corps. He entered the shipping business with the Moore-McCormack Lines, where he became a vice president.
In 1936 he and Capt. Thor Eckert formed their own steamship agency under the name of Eckert & Stockard, Inc., and in 1938 he went into business for himself. The present corporation was formed in 1939 and Mr. Stockard had been president and controlling stockholder since then.
The company received an award for meritorious service as general agent of the War Shipping Administration in World War II. As general agent it was responsible for the management of as many as forty merchant ships at one time.
Mr. Stockard's clubs included the Blind Brook, Augusta National Golf, Everglades, Oslo Golf , New York Athletic, Metropolitan and Whitehall. He also belonged to the Produce Exchange, an d the International House in New Orleans.
Surviving are his widow, the former Mary Alice English; two daughters, Lesly and Susan, an d a sister, Lucy Stockard Anson.
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