Lockwood, D. F.

LOCKWOOD, BENTLY, HAHNS, DEVER

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Date: 4/4/2003 at 16:31:14

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

D. F. LOCKWOOD.

The agricultural interests of Brookfield township find a worthy representative in this gentleman, who owns and operates an excellent farm of two hundred acres in Brookfield township, hi time and attention being devoted to general farming and stock raising. He is a native son of Clinton county and belongs to one of the oldest families of Brookfield township, his parents being Hiram and Harriet (Bently) Lockwood, both natives of New York state. Coming west in 1852, the father entered a tract of one hundred and twenty acres of government land in Brookfield township, this county, and at once commenced its improvement and cultivation. He successfully engaged in farming here until 1887, when he removed to Maquoketa, Iowa, and is now living a retired life. He is one of the honored pioneers of this county and is well worthy of representation in its history. In his family were three children, of whom our subject is the eldest; Ella M., the second in order of birth, is now the wife o W. H. Hahns, a lumber dealer of Maquoketa; and Edgar, the youngest, died at the age of nineteen years.

Duane F. Lockwood, whose name introduces this sketch, was born in Brookfield township, August 27, 1856, and is indebted to its public schools for his educational privileges. Since reaching manhood he has engaged in farming, and being industrious, energetic and enterprising, has met with good success. He married Miss Clara M. Dever, of Virginia, a daughter of D. B. Dever, of that state, and to them have been born four children, namely: Blanche E., Corinne, Nora and Opal.

Fraternally Mr. Lockwood is a member of the Woodmen of the World at Elwood, and politically he is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, though he takes no interest in politics aside from voting. His father, however, held all of the local offices in Brookfield township. The family is widely and favorably known.