Frank B. Lockwood Biography


	This biography appears on pages 323-324 in "History of Dakota 
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				FRANK B. LOCKWOOD. 

	Frank B. Lockwood, w ho has been a resident of South Dakota for 
more than a third of a century, was for a number of years actively and 
successfully identified with agricultural interests and is now spending 
the evening - of life in honorable retirement at Humboldt, Minnehaha 
county. He likewise held public office for a long period and is widely 
recognized as one of the highly respected citizens of his community. 
His birth occurred in the village of Cross River, Westchester county, 
New York, on the 15th of March, 1839, his parents being John P. and 
Jane A. (Barnhart) Lockwood, who spent the closing years of their lives 
in Huron county, Ohio. The father, a school teacher by profession, was 
identified with educational interests for many years. 

	Frank B. Lockwood was but three years of age when his parents 
established their home in Huron county, Ohio. and it was there that he 
was reared and acquired a common-school education. On attaining his 
majority he adopted farming as a vocation and was thus engaged at the 
time of the outbreak of the Civil war. In June, 1861, he enlisted as a 
private of Company D, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with 
that command went to the front, his regiment being assigned to the Army 
of West Virginia. In May 1862, his company was withdrawn from the 
Twenty-fifth Regiment and organized into the Twelfth Ohio Independent 
Battery of Light Artillery, under which command he served until the 
cessation of hostilities between the north and the south. Among the 
important engagements in which he participated were the battles of 
Cheat Mountain, West Virginia, Summit of Allegheny Mountain, Cedar 
Mountain, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Second Bull Run and Fredericksburg. 
He likewise took part in numerous smaller engagements, and when the 
country no longer needed his services returned to Ohio with a most 
creditable military record. 

	Mr. Lockwood remained in the Buckeye state but a short time, 
however, removing to Moline, Illinois, where he was employed as clerk 
by a grain firm for one year. Subsequently he identified himself with 
lumber interests, being connected with the business at different times 
at points in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa until 1879. In that year he 
came to South Dakota and located in McCook county, filing on a 
homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. He turned the virgin soil and 
built a home, remaining on the place until 1884, when he disposed of 
his property and purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in 
Humboldt township, Minnehaha county, near the town of Humboldt. There 
he carried on agricultural pursuits continuously and successfully until 
1892, when he put aside the active work of the fields and took up his 
abode in Humboldt. In January, 1893, he was appointed postmaster of the 
town, holding that position continuously for thirteen years and making 
a highly commendable record in that connection. He was also elected 
township clerk in 1893 and held that office for twenty-two consecutive 
years. During this period he was appointed notary public and for six 
years served in that capacity. Mr. Lockwood allied himself with the 
republican party soon after its birth and has remained a consistent 
supporter of its principles to the present time. He is a valued member 
of Joe Hooker Post, No. 10, G. A. R., of Sioux Falls. 

	On Christmas Day of 1883, at Salem, South Dakota, Mr. Lockwood 
was united in marriage to Mrs. Celestia A. (Dodge) Royce, the widow., 
of Daniel D. Royce, of Ohio. She was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 
1840, and her father, Gilead Dodge, was one of the pioneer settlers of 
that county. Frank B. Lockwood is well known as a man of sterling 
character and has long been numbered among the highly esteemed and 
honored citizens of the community in which he resides.