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Otis Taft Locke

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Otis Taft Locke

Birth
Death
1 Oct 1916 (aged 74)
Burial
Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
Cemetery: Old Section: 45 Lot: 26 Grave Number: 8 correct placement
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O. T. LOCKE, editor and proprietor of the Tribune, and postmaster of Tiffin, was born in Killawog, Cortland Co., N. Y., February 27, 1842, and is descended of a line of pioneer New Englanders, from England, his great. grandfather having served as a British officer in early colonial times. His father, Nathaniel R. Locke, a tanner and shoe-maker by occupation, a native of Vermont, served in the war of 1812 and afterward settled in Cortland County, N. Y. O. T. Locke after receiving a common school education in his native State, and when eighteen years old, "went West" and engaged as "typo" in the office of the Bucyrus Journal, at Bucyrus, Ohio (D. R. Locke, proprietor): here he completed his apprenticeship and, in 1863, with another brother, C. N. Locke (now deceased), bought the Findlay Jeffersonian, at Findlay, Ohio and conducted it till 1868, when they with Mr. W. G. Blymer (who had joined them at Findlay) bought out his present paper, the Tribune. Mr. Locke was married in Findlay, in 1866, to Miss Maria C. Porch, second daughter of Henry Porch, Esq., of Findlay, Ohio, and by her he has two daughters and one son: Carrie, Sallie and John. He is a member of the Masonic order. 1

Name: Otis T. Locke
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 25 Jan 1866
Marriage Place: Hancock, Ohio, USA
Spouse: Mariah C. Porch

1880 Census
Seneca OH
Otis T. Locke 36
Miriah Locke 35
Carrie Locke 13
Sallie Locke 12
John Locke 10
Burt Locke 11/12
O. T. LOCKE, editor and proprietor of the Tribune, and postmaster of Tiffin, was born in Killawog, Cortland Co., N. Y., February 27, 1842, and is descended of a line of pioneer New Englanders, from England, his great. grandfather having served as a British officer in early colonial times. His father, Nathaniel R. Locke, a tanner and shoe-maker by occupation, a native of Vermont, served in the war of 1812 and afterward settled in Cortland County, N. Y. O. T. Locke after receiving a common school education in his native State, and when eighteen years old, "went West" and engaged as "typo" in the office of the Bucyrus Journal, at Bucyrus, Ohio (D. R. Locke, proprietor): here he completed his apprenticeship and, in 1863, with another brother, C. N. Locke (now deceased), bought the Findlay Jeffersonian, at Findlay, Ohio and conducted it till 1868, when they with Mr. W. G. Blymer (who had joined them at Findlay) bought out his present paper, the Tribune. Mr. Locke was married in Findlay, in 1866, to Miss Maria C. Porch, second daughter of Henry Porch, Esq., of Findlay, Ohio, and by her he has two daughters and one son: Carrie, Sallie and John. He is a member of the Masonic order. 1

Name: Otis T. Locke
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 25 Jan 1866
Marriage Place: Hancock, Ohio, USA
Spouse: Mariah C. Porch

1880 Census
Seneca OH
Otis T. Locke 36
Miriah Locke 35
Carrie Locke 13
Sallie Locke 12
John Locke 10
Burt Locke 11/12


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