Locke, Maurice E – Lodge, Harriet Newell
Locke, Maurice E
educator, lawyer, was born Feb. 12, 1861, in Frankfort, Ill. In 1876 he graduated from the high school of Kentland, Ind.; attended a normal school at Valparaiso, and studied several languages under private tutors. In early life he taught school; then was engaged in journalistic work; and in 1879 was admitted to the bar. For three years he was president of a national bank; and subsequently has been successfully engaged in other businesses. In 1891 he resumed the practice of the law in Dallas.
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.
Locke, Sylvanus Dyer
inventor, was born Sept. 11, 1833, in Richfield, N.
Y. In his youth he was a civil engineer on the Mississippi river, and on the Wisconsin Central railroad. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar; and during the war received a lieutenant's commission in a company of Wisconsin volunteers.
He was county surveyor, and city engineer of Janesville, Wis., for eight years.
He was the inventor of the automatic grain binder, which was first manufactured in 1870 at the W. A. Wood Company's manufactory at Hoosick Falls, N. Y. Eleven distinct features embraced in this machine are now used by all manufacturers of binders. He owned seventy-four patents on harvesters and binders, besides thirty patents on other inventions, including hop-pickers, car-couplers, railway cross-tie, snow melting apparatus for city streets, self-closing gas burner, and vote recorder, and mail bag. In 1883 he was elected assemblyman from his district. His. last invention, just completed when death claimed him, was the automatic steel link drive chain machine.
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.
Lockhart, James
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1806, in Auburn, N. Y. He removed to Indiana in 1832; and in 1841 and 1842 was elected prosecuting attorney. From 1845 to 1851 he was judge of the fourth judicial district, when he resigned. He was elected a representative in congress from Indiana from 1851 to 1853. He died Sept. 7, 1857, in Evansville, Ind.
Lockhart, James Alexander
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 2, 1850, in Anson county, N. C.
He was elected to the house of representatives of the general assembly in 1878, and to the North Carolina state senate in 1880. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Lockney, Henry Calvin
farmer, merchant, lawyer, was born April 26, 1855, in Burnersville, W. Va. In 1875 he began teaching school in Arnoldsburg, W. Va., and followed his profession for several years in the adjoining counties. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar, and became prosecuting attorney of Clay county, which position he filled during 1887-96. In 1892 he declined the nomination for state superintendent of free schools. He has been state secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit association ever since its organization in West Virginia; was a delegate to the National alliance and Industrial union in 1894; and has filled various other positions of honor. He is also a successful farmer and stock dealer; and owns several farms near Arnoldsburg, W. Va.
Lockwood, Belva A
lawyer, reformer, lecturer, was born Oct. 24, 1830, in Royalton, N. Y. By her efforts, a law was passed equalizing the salaries of male and female government employees. In the year 1873 she was admitted to practice before the appellate court of the District of Columbia. In 1877 she applied for the right to practice before the supreme court of the United States. She was refused simply because she was a woman. She thereupon presented to congress a bill, which was passed, authorizing women to practice law in the United States courts.
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.
Lockwood, Henry Hayes
soldier, author, was born Aug. 17, 1814, in Kent county, Del. He was a United States army officer; and the author of Manual of Naval Batteries; and Exercises in Small Arms. of
Lockhart, Arthur John
clergyman, poet, was born May 5, 1850, in Lockhartville, Nova Scotia. He started in life printer, and subsequently became a noted clergyman of the methodist epischurch copal Maine. He has written essays and other articles for the periodical press, and is the author of two volumes of poems entitled The Mask of Minstrels; and Beside the Narragaugus, besides other works.
Lockwood, Homer Nichols
state legislator, topographer, was born June 23, 1833, in Victory, N. Y. He aided in building the New York Southern-Central railroad in 1865-71; and in 1866-67 was a member of the legislature.
Lockwood, Howard
publisher, was born March 9, 1846, in White Plains, N. Y.
In 1872 he established the Paper Trade Journal, from which has grown the large business known as the Lockwood Press.
He died Nov. 4, 1892, in New York city.
Lockwood, Ingersoll
lecturer, author, was born in 1841, in New York.
He is a lecturer of New York city; and the author of The Travels of Little Baron Trump; Wonderful Deeds of Little Giant Roab; Extraordinary Experience of Little Captain Doppelkopp; and Baron Trump's Journey Underground.
Lockwood, J. a. J
soldier. He served with distinction through the civil war; and was promoted to brigadier-general.
He is now a resident of Georgetown, D. C.
Lockwood, James Booth
explorer, was born Oct. 9, 1852, in Annapolis, Md.
In 1882 he set out on an expedition to the north pole, a journey which fixes his fame as an arctic explorer. He died April 9, 1884, in Cape Sabine.
Lockwood, John
railroad president, was born Nov. 13, 1836, in Lenawee county, Mich. He is president of the Rockport, Langdon and Northern railway at Rockport, Mo.
Lockwood, Marian Leroy
journalist, was born May 15, 1849, in Lenawee county, Mich. She has written extensively for current magazines and newspapers, and is now the editor and part owner of The Light of Easton, Kan.
Lockwood, Mary Smith
author, was born Oct. 24, 1831, in Hanover, N. Y.
She is the author of Handbook of Ceramic Art; and The Historic Homes of Washington; and also writes for magazines and papers.
Lockwood, Ralph Ingersoll
lawyer, author, was born in 1798, in New York. He was a lawyer of New York city; and the author of Rosine Laval, a novel; The Insurgents, a novel; and Lockwood's Reversed Cases. He died in 1855.
Lockwood, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1819, in England. He was a reformed Dutch clergyman who after 1867 was school superintendent of Monmouth county, N. J. He was the author of Temperance, Fortitude, Justice; The American Oyster; Abnormal Entozoa in Man; The Life of an Oyster; and Animal Memoirs. He died in 1894.
Lockwood, Virgil Homer
lawyer, was born May 6, 1860, in Fort Branch, Ind.
He received his education in the high school of his native city; at the DePauw university, and the university of Virginia.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind.
Lockwood, William F
lawyer, jurist, was born in Connecticut. He removed to Nebraska; and was appointed an associate justice of that territory, residing at Dakota City.
Lodge, Giles Henry
physician, author, was born March 13, 1805, in Boston, Mass. He was a physician of Boston; and the author of a scholarly translation of Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art. He died in 1880.
Lodge, Harriet Newell
author, poet, was born Jan. 26, 1848, in Madison, Ind. She received a liberal education, and graduated from the Western Female seminary of Oxford, Ohio. She has contributed to our best literature in prose and verse; and is the author, among other things, of an exquisite brochure on the Poetical Significance of Flowers; and of a very charming romance entitled Blaiseman. She is the daughter of Henry R. Newell, a prominent manufacturer, and the wife of James Irwin Lodge of Indianapolis, Ind.; and their son, Caleb Newell Lodge, is a rising young lawyer of that city.
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