Biography of Andrew J. Lockhart

	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1898. Page 272.

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ANDREW J. LOCKHART is the leading real estate and loan agent in Clear 
Lake, Deuel county, and one of the foremost citizens of that place. Mr. 
Lockhart was born in Alloa, Wisconsin, March 28, 1863, and is a son of 
John and Agnes Lockhart, both natives of Scotland, who came to this 
country in 1849, settling in Brooklyn, New York. His father was born in 
1827, and his mother in 1824. Both now reside upon a farm in Wisconsin, 
to which state our subject's father removed in 1851. The latter is now 
retired. Andrew was educated in Portage City, Wisconsin, and at the age 
of nineteen left home to seek his own fortune. He secured a position 
with the Singer Sewing Machine Company, at Baraboo, Wisconsin, 
remaining there for five months, after which he went to Stevens Point, 
in the same state. Fifteen months later, in 1884, he removed to 
Brookings South Dakota, where for eight months he was employed in a 
lumber yard. He then went to Clear Lake as manager of another yard, but 
six months later began buying grain and dealing in agricultural 
implements. He continued this business about three years, and then 
embarked in his present venture, which has been very successful. Mr. 
Lockhart is a Republican in politics, and has taken a prominent part in 
local affairs, though he has always declined office, owing principally 
to the demands made upon him by his business interests. He is a member 
of the Republican state central committee, of the Masonic fraternity 
and the Modern Woodmen of America.

	On the 31st of May, 1893, our subject was married at Clear Lake 
to Miss Clara M. Goddard. Mrs. Lockhart was born in Granite Falls, 
Minnesota, May 17, 1872. She was but two years old when her parents 
removed from the North Star state to South Dakota, settling upon a 
government claim in Deuel county, where they have since resided. Mr. 
and Mrs. Lockhart are the parents of one child, Edith Minerva, born 
November 21, 1894.