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LOCKE


LOCKWOOD


the ratification of the constitution of the United States in 1787. He served during the Revolution as brigadier-general, and was a representative in the 3d, 4th and 5th congresses, 1793-99. He died in Rowan county, N.C., Sept. 7, 1801.

LOCKE, Samuel, educator, was born in Wo- burn, Mass., Nov. 23, 1731 ; son of Samuel and Rebecca (Richardson) Locke ; grandson of Lieut. Ebenezer and Hannah (Meads) Locke, and of Capt. James and Elizabeth (ArnuU or Arnold) Richardson, and great-grand- son of Deacon William and Mary (Clarke) Locke, Wo- iburn, 1650. He was gradu- fated from Harvard, A.B., 1755, A.M., 1758 ; studied the- ology with the Rev. Timothy Harrington, who had prepared him for college and was ordained over the church and society at Sherburne, Mass., as successor to the Rev. Samuel Porter, deceased, Nov. 7, 1759. He was married, Jan. 2, 1760, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Samuel and Mary (Cooledge) Porter. In December, 1769, he was unanimously elected by the corporation, president of Harvard college as successor to Edward Holyoke,and he resigned his pastoral relation at Sherburne, in February, 1770, and was Inaugurated president, March 21, 1770. During his administration the prosperity of the college was retarded owing to the political excitement throughout the country. He resigned tlie presidency, Dec. 1, 1773. He received the degree S.T.D. from Harvard in 1773. He died in Sherburne, Mass., Jan. 15, 1778.

LOCKHART, Clinton, educator, was born in Lovington, 111., Feb. 21, 1858 ; son of George W. and Harriet J. (Hostetler) Lockhart ; grandson of John and Patsy (Riley) Lockhart, and of Christian Hostetler, a minister of the Christian church ; and a descendant of Thomas Lockhart, who came from Ireland and settled in Virginia. Thomas's grandson Richard, a Revolutionary sol- dier, was present at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis. Clinton Lockhart entered Kentucky university in 1878, graduating in the ministerial course, 1885 ; A.B., 1886, A.M., 1888. He was mar- ried, June 23, 1885, to MoUie, daughter of Dr. Reuben Smith of Monterey, Ky. He took post- graduate courses at Yale, 1887-88 and 1889-91. He held the Bible chair at Ann Arbor, Mich., 1893-94 ; was president of Christian colleg3, Columbia, Ky., 1894-95; president of Christian university, Canton, Mo., 1895-1900, and resigned to accept the profes- sorship in Semitic languages in Drake university, Des Moines, Iowa. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by Yale in 1894. He is the author of : Laws of Interj^retation (1894); Com- mentary on the Book of Nahum (1900,^- Principles of Scientijic Interpretation (1900).


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LOCKWOOD, Belva Ann Bennett, lawyer, was born in Royalton, N.Y., Oct. 24, 1830 ; daughter of Lewis J. and Hannah (Green) Ben- nett, and granddaughter of Ezekiel and Mary (High) Bennett, and of William and Sindona (Priest) Green. She attended the district school and at the age of fif- teen taught school during the summer months to pay her tuition at the Roy- alton academy. She was married Nov. 8, 1848, to Uriah H. McNall, a farmer of Royalton, who died in 1853. She enter- ed Genesee college (Syracuse universi- ty) in 1854, and was graduated A.B., 18- 57, A.M., 1870. She was preceptress of the Lockport Union school, 1857-61 Gainesville seminary, 1861-62 ; principal of the Hornellsville seminary, 1862-63 ; preceptress and proprietor of the McNall seminary at Owego, N.Y., 1863-66, and a teacher in Washington, D.C., 1866-68. She was married, secondly, March 11, 1868, to Dr. Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Bockraw) Lockwood, a dentist of Washington, D.C., who died in 1877. She was graduated D.C.L., from the National university in 1873, was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, and engaged in active practice in Washington, D.C. She secured the passage of a bill admitting women to the U.S. supreme court in 1879, and was admitted under the act in February, 1879, and also to to the U.S. court of claims. She was admitted to the Federal courts of Baltimore, Md., in 1880, and to those of Boston, Mass., in 1882. She was nominated as a candidate for President of the United States by the Equal Rights party of the Pacific slope in 1884, and by the same party in Iowa, in 1888. In 1889 she was a dele- gate to the Universal Peace union of the Inter- national Peace congress held in Paris, and to that in London, in 1890, and also took a course of lectures in the University extension at Oxford, England, in that year. She was the first woman granted a license tc practice law in Vii-ginia, ob- taining the license in 1894. She was commis- sioned by the state department to represent the United States at the congress of charities and corrections in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1896. She was elected secretary of the American branch of tiie International Peace bureau in 1893, and a member for the United States of the Interna- tional bureau at Berne, Switzerland. She served