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Rh to three forces, "the army, the navy, and theNasbv letters." President Lincoln offered to appoint Mr. Locke to office, and Gen. Grant urged him to ac- cept a foreign mission, but he declined. In 1871 he removed to New York city and became manag- ing editor of the " Evening Mail," but still main- tained his connection with the " Blade." Several years afterward he returned to Ohio. Mr. Locke published " Divers Views, Opinions, and Prophe- cies of Yours Truly "' (Cincinnati, 1865) ; " Swing- in' Round the Cirkle" (Boston, 1866); "Ekkoes from Kentucky" (1867); "The Moral History of America's Life Struggle" (1872); "The Struggles of P. V. Nasby " (1873) ; " The Morals of Abou ben Adhera ; or, Eastern Fruit in Western Dishes " (1875) ; " A Paper City," a novel, being the history of a western land speculation (1878); "Hannah Jane," a poem, and "Nasby in Exile" (1882); and pamphlets on political, social, and literary topics.

LOCKE, Jane Ermina, author, b. in Worthington, Mass., 25 April, 1805 ; d. in Ashburnham. Mass., 8 March, 1859. Her maiden name was Starkweather, and she married in 1829 John G. Locke, of Boston, author of a " Genealogy of the Locke Family" (Boston, 1853). They resided in Lowell from 1833 till 1839, and subsequently in Boston. Mrs. Locke's first published composi- tions were poems, which appeared in the " Ladies' American Magazine " about 1830. She was long a contributor to newspapers and periodicals, and is the author of a volume of " Poems " (Boston. 1842): "Rachel, or the Little Mourner" (1844); "Boston," a poem (1846); "The Recalled, or Voices of the Past " (1855) ; and a " Eulogy on the Death of Webster" in rhyme (1855).

LOCKE, John, physicist, b. in Frveburg. Me.. 19 Feb., 1792 ; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio. 10 July, 1856. He was graduated at the medical department of Yale in 1819, and afterward became geologist on the U. S. explorations of the northwest territories and on the state survey of Ohio. For many years after 1836 he was professor of chemistry in the Medical college of Ohio. Prof. Locke was one of the pioneers in the sciences of botany, geology, and electricity, making many discoveries in these branches, especially in terrestrial magnetism. He made various improved and original instruments for use in optics, physics, electricity, and magnet- ism, among which were the gravity escapement for regulator-clocks (1844), which has never been sur- passed, and his electro-chronograph (1848). subse- quently purchased for the U. S. naval observatory at an expense of $10,000; also a spirit-level (1850), which is still in use among civil engineers. Prof. Locke contributed to the proceedings of various scientific societies and to the " American Journal of Science," and published text-books on botany and on English grammar.

LOCKE, Matthew, statesman, b. near Salisbury', Rowan co., N. C, in 1730 ; d. there. 7 Sept., 1801. lie was among the earliest supporters of the Revolu- tion, and was one of the commission that was chosen by the people of North Carolina in 1771 to receive the fees of sheriffs and other colonial officers. He was a member of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1775, and of the convention that framed the state constitution in 1776. He was afterward elected to congress, and served from 2 Dec, 1793, till 3 March, 1799. He was a brigadier- general of state troops, served thirty years in the legislature, and was a member of that body when the United States constitution was ratified. — His nephew, Francis, jurist, b. in Rowan countv. X. ('.. 31 Oct., 1766; d. there, 8 Jan., 1823, studied and practised law, was elected a judge of the superior court of North Carolina in 1803, and resigned in 1814, when he was elected U. S. senator. In 1815 he resigned, before taking his seat in the senate. He was a presidential elector in 1809.

LOCKE, Richard Adams, journalist, b. in New York in 1800 ; d. on Staten island, 16 Feb., 1871. He was at one time editor of the " New York Sun " and " The New Era," but in consequence of feeble health he left journalism several years before his death, and received an appointment in the New York custom-house. In 1835 he created a sensa- tion by the publication of what purported to be the astronomical observations, especially on the moon, of Sir John Herschel, the younge'r. at the Cape of Good Hope, describing in detail, among other things, the discovery of lunar inhabitants. The whole account was so plausible and circum- stantial that it was believed even by many scien- tific men. It is generally known as the "Moon Hoax," and was reprinted in a pamphlet (New York, 1871). Afterward he wrote " The Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park," another hoax.

LOCKE, Samuel, educator, b. in Woburn, Mass., 23 Nov., 1732; d. in Sherburne, Mass.. 15 Jan., 1778. He was graduated at Harvard in 1655, ordained a minister at Sherburne. 7 Nov., 1759, and retained this pastorate till 1759. when he was ap- pointed president of Harvard. 21 March. 1770. On 1 Dec. 1773, he resigned from the presidency, and spent the remainder of his life in retirement. Har- vard conferred on him the degree of I). D. in 1773. The only production of Dr. Locke's in print is his "Convention Sermon" (1772).

LOCKWOOD, Belva Ann Bennett, reformer, b. in Royalton, N. Y., 24 Oct., 1830. She was educated in district schools, and taught at the age of fourteen. In 1848 she married Uriah H. McNall, a farmer, who died in 1853. and in 1868 she married Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood, who died in 1*77. In 1857 she was graduated at Syracuse university. After teaching in New York state, she removed to Washington, D. C. where she opened a school, and in 1870 began to study law. She was admitted to the bar in 1873, and in 1879 was permitted to practise before the supreme court and the court of claims. In 1870 she obtained the passage of a bill "to secure to women employes of the government equal pay with men for equal work." She has been an active advocate of woman suffrage, and in 1884 was nominated by the National equal rights party in California for the presidency of the United States. She has delivered many lectures.

LOCKWOOD, Henry Hayes, soldier, b. in Kent county. Del., 17 Aug., 1814. lie was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1836, as- signed to the 2d artillery, and served against the Seminoles in Florida in 1836-'7, but resigned his commission on 12 Sept.. 1837. and engaged in farming in Delaware until 1841. He was then appointed professor of mathematics in the U. S. navy and ordered to the frigate "United States," on which he participated in the capture of Monterey, Cal., in October, 1842. On his return he was ordered to the naval asylum at Philadelphia, and subsequently to the naval school at Annapolis, as professor of natural and experimental philosophy. In 1851 he was transferred to the chair of field artillery and infantry tactics, serving also as professor of astronomy and gunnery till 1866. During the civil war he served as coionel of the 1st Delaware regiment, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers on 8 Aug., 1861. He commanded an expedition to the eastern shore of Virginia, theq had charge of Point Lookout and the defences of the lower Potomac, commanded a bri-