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Locke, Francis – Lockwood, Daniel Newton

Locke, Francis

lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Oct. 31, 1766, in Rowan county, N. C. He was elected a judge of the superior court in 1803; and was chosen a senator in congress for the years 1814 and 1815 from his native state, but appears not to have taken his seat. He died Jan. 8, 1823, in Rowan county, N. C.

Locke, John

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1764, in Hopkinton, Mass.

From 1823 to 1829 he was a representative in congress from the Worcester north district; in 1830 was a state senator from Middlesex county, Mass.; and in 1831 was a member of the executive council. He died March 29, 1855, in Boston, Mass.

Locke, John

physicist, was born Feb. 19, 1792, in Freeburg, Maine. He made various improved and original instruments for use in optics, physics, electricity, and magnetism, among which were the gravity escapement for regulatorclocks which has never been surpassed; and his electro-chronograph subsequently purchased for the United States naval observatory at an expense of $10,000; also a spirit-level which is still in use among civil engineers. He died July 10, 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Locke, John Staples

author, poet, was born in 1836. He is a writer of Saco, Maine; and the author of Shores of Saco Bay; Historical Sketches of Old Orchard; The Art of Correspondence; A Brave Struggle, a novel; Pleasing Rhymes for Happy Times; and Bright Hours.

Locke, Joseph Alvah

lawyer, state senator, was born in December, 1843, in Biddeford, Maine. He has been on the school committee of Portland, and the board of trustees of Kent's Hill seminary, and made its president; and has represented the city twice in the house, and his district twice in the senate of the legislature, in 1880 being its president.

Locke, Matthew

congressman, was born in 1730, near Salisbury, N. C. He was a member of the congress at Halifax in 1776, which formed the constitution of North Carolina; and was a representative in the congress of the United States from 1793 to 1799. He also served in the legislature. He died Sept. 7, 1801, in Salisbury, N. C.

Locke, Powhattan B

lawyer, jurist, was born in Kentucky. He removed to Missouri; and was appointed a judge of the United States court for the territory of Nevada, residing at Carson City.

Locke, Samuel

educator, was born Nov. 23, 1732, in Woburn, Mass. He was ordained a minister at Sherburne in 1759, and retained this pastorate till 1769, when he was appointed president of Harvard.

He died Jan. 15, 1778, in Sherburne, Mass.

Lockett, J. B

educator, lawyer, was born in 1868, in Austin, Tex. After receiving a liberal education he commenced educational work. He subsequently studied law, was admitted to the bar, and is now a leading lawyer of the Indiana territory at Duncan; where he has been connected with some of the most prominent litigations of the territory. He has also taken a prominent part in political affairs. as a

Lockhart, Fred T

lawyer, author, was born June 11, 1850, in Lincoln county, Ga. He received his education in the universities of Georgia and Virginia; and is now a successful lawyer of Augusta, Ga., and attorney for three railroads in that state. He is the author of a volume entitled Told By a Child, and other works.

Lockwood, Daniel Newton

lawyer, congressman, was born June 1, 1844, in Hamburg, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortyfifth congress as a democrat.