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

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     REUBEN JENNESS LOCKE, who conducts a small farm in the
town of Rye, also having a confectionery stand and large bath house at
Rye Beach, was born in this town May 31, 1863, a son of Richard L.
and Sarah (Jenness) Locke. He is a descendant in the eighth genera-
tion from Capt. John Locke, the immigrant ancestor of the family.
He was educated in the schools of Rye and afterwards became asso-
ciated with his father in truck gardening, they also raising chickens for
the market. About twenty-five years ago he started his present busi-
ness, establishing a bath house of fifty rooms at the beach, which he
gradually increased, until he now has 175 bath rooms. The house is
known as Locke's Pavilion, and is furnished with a heating apparatus
for providing hot salt water. Industrious and persevering, he has estab-

Page 966 

lished a successful enterprise and is one of the prosperous citizens of
the town. He is a Democrat in politics, has served as town treasurer,
and is one of the commissioners of the precinct in which he lives. Mr.
Locke married February 23, 1898, Bessie Batchelder of North Hamp-
ton, and they are parents of two sons, Richard J. and Edward B. He
and his wife attend the Congregational Church.

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