Locke, James W
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 30, 1837, in Wilmington, Vt. He received a high school and academic education; and subsequently was engaged in educational work.
He then studied law and has attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Florida. During the war he was in the naval service and at its close settled in Key West, Fla. He has been county judge; has served with distinction as a member of the Florida state senate. In 1872 he was appointed United States district judge for the southern district of Florida; and has filled that high office to the entire satisfaction of his state. born LOCKE, MRS. JANE ERMIΙΝΙΑ [STARKWEATHER], poet, was April 25, 1805, in Worthington, Mass. She was a poet of Boston; and the author of Poems; Rachel, or the Little Mourner; Boston, a Poem; and Eulogy in Rhyme on the Death of Webster. She died March 8, 1859, in Ashburnham, Mass.