BIOGRAPHY: Henry Locke; Cayuga co., New York transcribed and submitted by: Ann Anderson (ann.g.anderson at gmail.com) ========================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ========================================================= BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW THIS VOLUME CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LEADING CITIZENS OF CAYUGA COUNTY NEW YORK BOSTON BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY 1894 HENRY LOCKE is a gentleman who has enjoyed a varied experience, possesses wide knowledge, is an admirer of good books, yet is easily approachable, quick to recognize and aid every good enterprise. Though a citizen of Conquest, he was born in Lyme, Jefferson County, N.Y., June 15, 1841, his father, Reuben Locke, being also a native of that place. Reuben Locke, Sr., grandfather of Henry, came to these parts from Massachusetts, and cleared a tract of woodland, where he lived until his death. He and his wife were good Methodists, and in this faith and on this farm Reuben, Jr., was reared till manhood, when he removed to a farm adjoining, where he died in 1846, at the age of thirty-three, leaving a widow, Sophia Lyons, and three children — Alanson, Henry, and Sarah, now Mrs. Bray-ton Priest, of Emersonville. Mrs. Reuben' Locke, Jr., was one of the five children of Lansing Lyons, a life-long farmer of Jefferson County, where she also spent her entire years, dying November 19, 1889, aged seventy-four. Little Henry was but five years old when his father died, and until he was of age he lived on the parental farm with his beloved mother. The Southern Rebellion having broken out in 1861, in the next year, August 8, Henry enlisted in the Tenth New York Regiment, and was placed in artillery service for the defence of Washington, D.C., being connected with the Twenty-second Army Corps. Later he served in the brigade under Colonel Kibbe, of the Sixth New York Artillery, and Brigadier-general Fero. In 1864 he was in the Eighteenth Corps, under General Smith, where he belonged to the First Brigade and was with Russell's division of the Twenty-second Army Corps at the defence of Washington. He was in the battle at Cold Harbor; assault on Petersburg; mine explosion, Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864; at Bermuda Hundred, and the fall of Richmond; taken prisoner the morning of April 1, 1865; and was released when the rebels surrendered at Appomattox Court-house, the 9th, he having spent one night in the famous Libby prison. He served as Corporal, was mustered out July 8, 1865, at Sackett's Harbor, and is now a member of Lockwood Post No. 175 of the Grand Army. Reared an agriculturist, and always fond of this pursuit, he bought in the centennial year the farm of sixty-eight acres where he still resides, a mile from Conquest Village. Mr. Locke was married, however, nearly ten years earlier, not long after the war, to Eliza Morris, one of the nine children of John and Eleanor (Vaughan) Morris, who was herself one of seven children — Mary, Eliza, Thomas, Jeanette, Eleanor, Jennie, John. The father, Mr. John Morris, was of Scotch descent, and crossed the ocean a youth of sixteen. His wife came from Ireland with her parents when a child of twelve. At the time of their marriage they lived in Montreal, but soon came to Alexandria, Jefferson County, where Mr. Morris worked at his trade as blacksmith until his death, at the age of seventy-three. His wife died at the age of sixty-eight. Mr. Locke has always supported the Republican party, and for eighteen years has been one of the town Assessors. He and his family are members of the Protestant Methodist church at Spring Lake, though Mrs. Locke's parents were Episcopalians; but such people are an honor to any community, be their religion and politics what they may.