John E. Locke Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Betsy Webber - betsy@megalink.net

Surname: LOCKE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1140

     JOHN E. LOCKE, now living retired in the town of Rye, was born in
this town August 25, 1835. Both his parents were natives of Rye. The
father, Elvin Locke, was a farmer and shoemaker. He and his wife, whose
maiden name was Louise Berry, had eight children, namely: John E., Mary,
Oliver E., Charles (deceased), Sarah L. (wife of Clarence Marston), Samuel
J., Abbie, and Emma, wife of Oliver B. Fogg.
     John E. Locke was educated in the common schools, which he attended
until he was fourteen years of age. He then began working out on farms
and was thus occupied for five years, subsequently working for three years
in the navy yard at Portsmouth. He then went to railroading, which occu-
pation he followed for forty-eight years, finally retiring from active work
and taking up his residence on his present homestead, which has been owned
in the Locke family ever since the time of his great grandfather.
     Mr. Locke is affiliated with the democratic party in politics and for many
years has been quite active in public affairs. He was a member of the con-
stitutional convention in 1886; alderman from Ward I, Portsmouth, for six
years; also representative to the state legislature for two terms, and has been
selectman in the town of Rye two terms. He belongs to St. Andrews Lodge,
A. F. & A. M., and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
     Mr. Locke was first married in 1862 to Sarah Hayes, a native of Milton,
N. H.  She died in 1877, leaving a son, Charles, now a professor in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Boston, who married Louise stew-
art. Mr. Locke married for second wife Laura Hayes, a cousin of his first
wife, and daughter of Ichabod and Hannah R. (Jenkins) Hayes. Her par-
ents were natives of Milton and were farmers. Their other children were
George, Hannah, Frances, wife of George Ware, and Charles. Mr. Locke
and wife attend the Congregational church, with which Mrs. Locke's family
were also affiliated.

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