Introduction

Biography

Jay was the son of My­ron T. Stock­ing and Eli­za­beth Thomp­son, and hus­band of Grace Cor­de­lia Por­ter.

He at­tend­ed Am­herst Col­lege, Am­herst, Mas­sa­chu­setts (AB 1895), then taught in Law­rence­ville, New Jer­sey (1895–98). He re­ceived his BD de­gree from Yale Uni­ver­si­ty in 1901, was or­dained a Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter, then stu­died at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ber­lin (1902–03).

He held pas­tor­ates at:

• Church of the Re­deem­er, New Ha­ven, Con­nec­ti­cut; First Church, Bel­lows Falls, Ver­mont (1903–05)
• Central Church, New­ton­ville, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1905–14)
• First Church, Wash­ing­ton, DC (1914–15)
• Union Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Up­per Mont­clair, New Jer­sey (1915–27)
• Pilgrim Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, St. Louis, Mis­sou­ri (1927–35)
• Congregational Church, New­ton Centre, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1935–36)

He was a trust­ee of Ober­lin Col­lege, the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Con­fer­ence of Mis­sou­ri, and the Con­gre­ga­tion­al An­nu­ity Fund, and mod­er­at­or of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of Con­gre­ga­tion­al Christ­ian Church­es (1934–35).

Works

• The City That Nev­er Was Reached, 1911
• The Gold­en Gob­let, 1914
• Mr. Friend O’Man, 1920
• Queery Queer, 1926
• Stocking Tales, 1937