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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II

p. 4488, 450
photo p. 449



JOHN GALEN LOCKE, M. D.

Dr. John Galen Locke, a physician and surgeon who by public 
opinion is accorded high rank in professional circles in Denver, was 
born in New York city on the 6th of September, 1871. His father, Dr. 
Charles Earl Locke, was a native of the Empire state and a 
representative of one of its old families, his ancestors having come 
from England in the Mayflower. Through Intervening years the family has 
been prominently connected with events of Importance in the east and 
later in the west. Representatives of the name served in the 
Revolutionary war, assisting in winning American Independence, and 
later took part in the War of 1812. Dr. Charles Earl Locke won for 
himself a creditable place as a physician and surgeon in the east. He 
is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital of New York and engaged in practice 
In New York city until 1888, when he removed westward to Colorado, 
making Denver his destination. He continued in active practice in this 
city until 1917 and his pronounced ability placed him in the front rank 
among the most skilled and successful physicians and surgeons of 
Colorado. He is a Civil war veteran, having served as captain of a 
company in the Seventy-ninth New York Highlanders during the period of 
hostilities between the north and the south, and he is a past commander 
of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He also belongs to the Grand 
Army of the Republic and proudly wears the little bronze button that 
proclaims him one of the veterans of the Civil war. At the time of the 
Spanish-American war he again enlisted for active military service, 
joining the First Colorado Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Manila 
during one of the skirmishes there but remained at the front until 
victory was won in the Philippines, after which he returned home with 
his regiment. Politically he has ever been a stanch republican and at 
one time he served as a member of the state senate, giving careful and 
earnest consideration to the vital questions which came up for 
settlement during that period. He is also a Mason, holding membership 
in Henry M. Teller Lodge, No. 144, and he belongs to Denver Lodge, No. 
17, B. P. O. E. He is ever loyal to the teachings and purposes of these 
organizations and his upright life, his marked ability and his sterling 
worth have gained for him a high measure of confidence and respect. He 
married Jennie W. Barber, a daughter of the Hon. William B. Barber, who 
was at one time judge in Essex county, New York, and was a 
representative of an old family of that state of Scotch-Irish descent, 
the family of Barber having been founded in America prior to the 
Revolutionary war, in which one of the ancestors of Mrs. Locke 
participated. The death of Mrs. Locke occurred in Denver in 1911, when 
she had reached the age of sixty-eight years. By her marriage she had 
become the mother of three children, of whom John G. is the eldest. The 
others are: Ella G., now the wife of William Spencer Moffett, a 
resident of Denver; and Jessie R., the wife of Erwin Philipps of San 
Francisco, California.

Dr. John Galen Locke was educated in the public and high schools 
of New York city and then, determining to engage in the same profession 
to which his father has directed his energies, he entered the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College, where his preliminary work was done. He 
afterward became a student in the Denver College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree. Following 
the completion of his course he went abroad to Germany for further 
study and spent some time in Berlin, Vienna and Paris, coming under the 
instruction of some of the most eminent scientists of the old world. He 
also spent some time in the Rotunda Hospital of Dublin, Ireland. He 
remained abroad for a number of years, continually studying and thus 
greatly promoting his efficiency. He has since taken post-graduate work 
in the New York Polyclinic Hospital, in the New York Post Graduate 
College, in the Chicago Polyclinic and in the Chicago Post Graduate 
College. For a time he was teacher of medicine in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons in Denver, continuing in that connection for 
several years. He is now a member of the staff of the Denver City and 
County Hospital, also of St. Anthony's Hospital and the Park Avenue 
Hospital. He has been a frequent and valued contributor to leading 
medical journals of the country, his articles being widely read, while 
his opinions carry weight in professional circles. He belongs to the 
Denver City and County Physicians and Surgeons Medical Society and also 
to the Physicians' and Surgeons' Association and to the Surgeons' 
Society of North America. He ranks very high in professional circles, 
his pronounced ability being recognized not only in Denver and in 
Colorado but in many other parts of the country as well.

Dr. Locke is also a prominent figure in Masonic circles, 
belonging to Henry M. Teller Lodge, No. 144, A. F. & A. M.; South 
Denver Chapter, No. 42, R. A. M.; Coronal Commandery, K. T.; and to the 
various Scottish Rite bodies, having attained the thirty-second degree 
in Rocky Mountain Consistory. He likewise has life membership in El 
Jehel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., is a Knight of the Black Cross, a 
member of Denver Lodge, No. 17, B. P. O. E., and for the last named is 
medical examiner. He belongs also to the Denver Athletic Club, to the 
Denver Civic and Commercial Association and to the Democratic Club-a 
connection that indicates his political position. His religious faith 
is that of the Episcopal church and he finds his chief diversions in 
hunting and fishing, belonging to the Kennicott Hunting and Fishing 
Club. He served as first lieutenant of Battery A, Colorado Volunteers, 
during the Spanish-American war, and is a member of Colorado 
Consistory, Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States, Dr. 
Locke is widely known in Denver, having become a resident of this city 
when a youth, of sixteen years. In the intervening period he has here 
made his home and his social and professional prominence places him in 
the front rank among the highly honored and representative residents of 
Denver.