Samuel S. Lockhart Biography


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	SAMUEL S. LOCKHART, judge of the Grant county court, is one of the 
representative citizens of Milbank and a leading member of the bar whose course 
has been such as to retain to him unqualified confidence and regard wherever he 
is known. Judge Lockhart is a native of the fair land of hills and heather, 
having been born in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland, on the 20th of November, 
1850, being a son of John and Agnes (Gray) Lockhart, both of whom were 
representatives of a staunch Scottish stock. John Lockhart was identified with 
agricultural pursuits in his native land until 1852, when he immigrated with his 
family to America and located in Williamsburg, New York, but in 1854 he came to 
the west and settled in Caledonia township, Columbia county, Wisconsin, where he 
has ever since maintained his home. He devoted the major portion of his active 
career to farming, becoming one of the successful and respected citizens of the 
Badger state, where he is now living practically retired. His wife was summoned 
into eternal rest on the 6th of March, 1900, at the age of seventy-five years. 
They were the parents of seven sons and three daughters, of whom one son and two 
daughters are deceased.  

	Samuel S. Lockhart, who was the eldest of the ten children, was reared to 
manhood on the farm, in Wisconsin, attending the district schools of Caledonia 
and later completing a course in the high school at Portage. He taught for five 
years in the public schools and then began to read law in the office of James B. 
Taylor, of Portage. In the fall of 1878 he was elected clerk of the circuit 
court, in which capacity he served four years, meanwhile continuing his study of 
the law. He was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1883 came 
to Milbank. He soon established himself in practice so that he has the 
distinction of being one of the pioneer members of the bar of Grant county, 
where he has met with distinctive success in his chosen profession, in which he 
has gained unmistakable precedence. In 1885-6 he served as district attorney for 
this county, and in 1894 was elected state's attorney, serving two years, while 
during the years 1893-4 he was city attorney of Milbank. In 1890 he was 
appointed supervisor of statistics, taking data relative to the indebtedness of 
the state, in connection with the federal census, and in 1900 he was elected 
judge of the county court, having been chosen his own successor in the fall of 
1902. The estimate placed upon his services on the bench was indicated by the 
fact that he was reelected without opposition, no other candidate being entered 
for the contest. For a decade the Judge was an active member of the board of 
education, voluntarily resigning the office in the spring of 1903. He is the 
owner of valuable property in Milbank, and also has a finely improved farm of 
one hundred sixty acres, eight miles southeast. He has attained the Knight 
Templar degree in the Masonic fraternity, and is the present worshipful master 
of Milbank Lodge, No. 20, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member 
of the Knights of the Maccabees, and is at present sergeant of the grand camp of 
the order. In politics the Judge is a Republican.  

	On the 28th of March, 1879, Judge Lockhart was united in 
matrimony to Miss Harriet L Marvin, of Randolph, Wisconsin, she being a 
native of Columbia county, that state, and a daughter of George G. and 
Harriet J. (Stultz) Marvin, the former of whom was born in Connecticut 
and the latter in New York. Mr. Marvin was a member of the Wisconsin 
legislature in 1871. Judge and Mrs. Lockhart 
have five children, namely Harriet M., Agnes G., John G., Marvin and 
Margaret Janet.