Frank B. Lockwood Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1564-1565 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRANK B. LOCKWOOD, who for more than a decade past has held the 
office of postmaster at Humboldt, Minnehaha county, is a native of the 
Empire state of the Union, having been born in the village of Cross 
River, Westchester county, New York, on the 15th of March, 1839, and 
being a son of John P. and Jane A. (Barnhart) Lockwood, who passed the 
closing years of their lives in Huron county, Ohio, the father having 
been a school teacher by vocation. When the subject was a child of three 
years his parents removed to Huron county, Ohio, where he was reared to 
maturity, securing a common-school education and being there engaged in 
farming at the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, when he promptly 
manifested his intrinsic loyalty by tendering his services in the 
defense of the Union. In June, 1861, at the age of twenty-two years, he 
enlisted as a private in Company D, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, the command being 
assigned to the Army of West Virginia. In May, 1862, the entire company 
was transferred and given the title of Twelfth Ohio Independent Battery 
of Light Artillery, and under these conditions Mr. Lockwood continued to 
serve until the close of the war. Among the more notable battles in 
which he participated may be mentioned the following: Cheat Mountain, 
West Virginia, Summit of Alleghany Mountain, Cedar Mountain, second Bull 
Run, Fredericksburg, and numerous other small engagements. 

	After the close of his long and gallant service as a soldier of 
the republic Mr. Lockwood returned to Ohio, where he remained a short 
time and then removed to Rockland, Illinois, where he was engaged in 
clerking for one year, and thereafter was engaged in the lumber business 
for intervals of varying length in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, until 
1879, when he came to South Dakota and located as a pioneer in McCook 
county, taking up a homestead claim and initiating the work of improving 
the same and bringing it under cultivation. He there continued to reside 
until 1884, when he removed to the vicinity of Humboldt, Minnehaha 
county, where he became the owner of a farm of one hundred and sixty 
acres, in Humboldt township. He here continued to be actively engaged in 
agricultural pursuits until 1892, when he took up his abode in the 
village mentioned, and has ever since resided here, a prominent and 
honored citizen. In January, 1893, he was appointed postmaster at 
Humboldt, of which office he has ever since been incumbent, while he has 
served for six years as notary public, and has been township clerk since 
1893. 11e is a man of sterling character and has the high esteem of all 
who know him. In politics he has given his support to the Republican 
party from practically the time of its organization to the present, and 
fraternally he is a member of Jo Hooker Post, Grand Army of the 
Republic, at Sioux Falls. 

	On Christmas day, 1883, at Salem, South Dakota, Mr. Lockwood was 
united in marriage to Mrs. Celestia A. (Dodge) Royce, widow of Daniel D. 
Royce, of Ohio, of which state she is a native, having been born in 
1840, in Ashtabula county, and being a daughter of Gilead Dodge. Mr. and 
Mrs. Lockwood have no children.