Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.  Barren County.

WILLIAM N. LOCKE, a native of Barren County, Ky., was born January 25,
1858, and is the eldest of seven children born to John A. and Sarah E.
(Wilson) Locke.  John A. Locke is of English descent, and was born in
Barren County, Ky., in 1830; at the age of fourteen or fifteen years he
commenced clerking in a dry goods store at Glasagow, which he continued
for ten or fifteen years.  He then engaged, until 1863, in general
merchandising at Prewitt's Knob, on his own account; since then he has
followed agricultural pursuits, and has also served for several years as
a deputy county clerk at Cave City.  His wife is a native of Barren
County and was born in 1833.  His father, Rev. James Locke, was a
prominent minister in the Baptist Church, and a son of Jacob Locke, a
Virginian, who with his wife and family immigrated to Kentucky in an
early day, where he was one of the first Baptist ministers, and
organized the Green River Association.  William N. Locke was educated at
the common and select schools of the country, and at the age of twenty
engaged as a salesman in a drug store in Glasgow; one year later he
engaged in the business at the same place on his own account, and has
since followed it successfully.  In July, 1885, he formed a partnership
with J. B. Lessenberry, under the firm name of Locke & Lessenberry; they
carry a large and well selected stock of drugs, medicines, paints, oils,
druggists' sundries, books and stationery, amounting to $4,000 or
$5,000; their average annual sales amount to $12,000 or $15,000.
September 1, 1881, Mr. Locke married Ella A. Bell; she was born in
Missouri, June 4, 1859, and has borne her husband two sons, William G.
and Thomas M.  Mr. Locke and wife are members of the Presbyterian
Church; he is a member of the K. of H., and politically a Democrat.

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