In April, L. Stockton Illoway was elected president of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. Stock is a lifelong resident of Chester County and is married to Eleanor Morris Illoway, also a lifelong resident of Chester County. Stock graduated from The Haverford School in 1961 and Harvard College in 1965. He completed military service with the Pa. Army National Guard and retired as a First Sergeant. He served with The First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry.

Stock worked for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1967 to 1997 when, as Senior Vice President of Marketing, he left the Company to join their local agency, founded in 1847, and become a Financial Consultant.

Stock has a long history of hunting with hounds and has been a Master of the Ardrossan Beagles since 1975, and still hunts hounds. He has held positions in a number of Beagle or Hunting organizations and currently is President of The Bryn Mawr Hound Show Association, the oldest and largest hound show in North America.

A member of the French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust since its founding in 1967, he has served as President and is currently on its Board and is chair of the Land Preservation Committee. He also serves on the East Pikeland Open Space Committee and is active in other conservation efforts. Along with his wife and sister-in-law, he was a founding board member of Lundale Farm Inc, as organization devoted to promoting sustainable agriculture, and helping young farmers get started through leasing of land, as well as showing other landowners how to put their land into sustainable use.