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throughout the war and brought liim a national reputation as a satirist. President Lincoln and President Grant both offered him hicrative posi- tions in the public service, which he declined. He became managing editor of the Eviniimj Mail, New York city, in 1871, at the same time retain- ing his connection with the Toledo Blade, and in 1873 became a member of the newspaper adver- tising firm of Bates & Locke in New York city. He was a popular lecturer and is the autlior of: Divers Vieics, Opinions and Projiliecies of Yoitrs Truly (ISGr)); Sivingin' Round the Cirkl('(\Sm); 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 Adhem, or Eastern Fruit in Western Dishes{\Sli)); A Paper City (1878); Hannah Jane (1882); ]S!asby in Exile (1882), besides numerous pamphlets. He died in Toledo, Oiiio, Feb. 15, 1888.

LOCKE, Francis, jurist, was born in Rowan county, X.C, Oct. 31, 1766; son of the Hon. Mattliew Locke (q. v.). He practised law in North Carolina; was judge of the superior court, 1803-14; served as a presidential elector in 1809 and was elected to the senate in 1814, but resigned his right to a seat before tbe assembling of the 14th congress, and Nathaniel Moore was elected in his place. His brotlier. Lieut. George Locke, served under Colonel Davie in the Revolution and was killed at the tliird chai'ge on the British lines at Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 26, 1780. Judge Locke died in Rowan county. N.C., Jan. 8, 1823.

LOCKE, Jane Ermina, author, was born at Worthington, Mass., April 2.5, 1805; daughter of Deacon Charles and Deborah (Brown) Stark- weather; granddaughter of Robert and Sarah Eveleth Starkweather of Ipswich, Mass. , and a de- scendant of Robert Starkweather, who settled at Roxbury, Mass., in 1640, and afterward removed to I|)swich, Mass. Siie was well educated, and in early womanhood began contributing, both in prose and poetry, to the literature of the day. She was married at "Worthington, Mass., Oct. 25, 1829, to John Goodwin, son of Jolin and Hannah (Goodwin) Locke, author of " Book of the Lockes" (1853.) They made their home in Lo- well. Mass.. 1833-49. and in Boston. Mass., 1850-59. Her first publisiied writings were i)oems published in the Ladies' American Magazine (1830). Siie is the author of: Poems (1842); Rachel, or the Little Mourner (1844); Boston, a poem (1810); The Recalled, or Voices of the Past (16 00); Eulogy on the Death of Webster, in rhyme (1855). She died in Ashburnhan. Mass., March 8. 1859.

LOCKE, John, representative, was born at Hopkinton, Mass.. Feb. 14, 1764; son of Jonathan and Mary (Haven) Nicholas Locke, and a descen- dant of Deacon "William Locko. who was born in Loudon, England, iu 1678; came to America in

1634, and in 1650 settled in Woburn, Mass., where he married Mary Clarke. He worked on his father's farm until 1786, when he was prepared for college by Ebenezer Pembroke, preceptor at Andover academy. He was a student at Dart- mouth college for nine months in 1789, and then transferred to Harvard, where he was graduated A.B., 1792, A.M., 1795. He stuilied law with the Hon. Timothy Bigelow of Groton, 179.3-96, and settled in practice at Ashbv, Mass. He was mar- ried May 25, 1799, to Ilaimah, daughter of Na- thaniel and Molly (Jackson; Goodwin of Plym- outh, Mass. He represented Ashby in the Massa- chusetts legislature in 1804, 1805. 1813 and 1823; was a member of the Massachusetts constitu- tional convention in 1820; a representative in the 18th, 19th and 20th congresses. 1823-29; senator from Middlesex county, 1830; a member of the executive council, 1831, and practised law at Ashby, 1832-37. He removed to Lowell in 1837 and to Boston. Mass., in 1849. He died in Boston,
 * \rass.. Marrli 29. 18.55.

LOCKE, John, physicist, was born at Lempster, N.H., Feb. 19, 1792; son of Samuel Barron and Hannah (Russell) Locke; grandson of Lieut. James and Hannah (Farnsworth) Locke and of "William and Lucy (Goklsmitli) Russell, and great ^-grandson of Deacon William Locke. He was graduated from Yale, M.D., 1819. and was ge- ologist on the U.S. survey of the mineral lands of the Northwest territory and on the survey of Ohio for several years. He was married in Cincin- nati, Ohio, Oct. 25,1825, to Mary Morris of Newark, N.J. He was professor of chemistry and phar- macy in the Ohio Medical college at Cincinnati, 1836-56. He made new discoveries in terrestrial magnetism; invented several instruments for use in optics, physics, electricity and magnetism, including the gravity' escapement for clocks, an electro-ciironograph clock, for which congress paid $10,000 in 1849, for theU.S. Naval observatory, and a spirit-level. He contributed to Sillinian's Joui'nal, the Amei'ican Journal of Science, the Philosophical Magazine of London, the Proceed- ings of various scientific societies and other peri- odicals. He is the author of: The Outlines of Botany (1829); a sub-report on The Suri'ey of the Mineral Lauds of loica, Illinois and JVisconsin, published In* congress (1840); sub-report on Jhe Geology of Ohio, published by the state (1838), and text books on botany and English grammar. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 10, 1856.

LOCKE, Matthew, representative, was born near Salisbury, N.C., in 1730. He was chosen a treasury commissioner of the colony of North Carolina in 1771; was a member of the house of commons of North Carolina, 1775-93; a delegate to the convontion at Halifax that framed the "onsiitutiou of North Carolina iu 1776; voted for