Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 515
HNERY H. LOCKLING

Henry H. LOCKLING, a farmer of section 7, Magnolia Township, ranks among the earliest vanguards to Harrison Count, coming as he did in the fall of 1851, which was two years prior to the organization of the count. The first winter he spent in Raglan Township, and in the spring of 1852, moved to Magnolia Township.

Mr.LOCKLING was born in Lyndon Caledonia County, Vt., January 17, 1833, and accompanied his parents to St. Joseph, Mo., in the autumn of 1849, where they remained until spring, and came to Council Bluffs, and there remained until the fall of 1851, and then, as above stated, came to Harrison County. In the fall of 1850 our subject come up into Harrison County, along the Little Sioux River, bringing a herd of cattle from Pottawattamie County to a point in the rush beds along the Missouri River, west of Magnolia. They spent some six weeks in hunting deer and wild turkeys, the party consisting of his father, grandfather and uncle, and a man by the name of NILES. They were taken to the locality by Mr. MERCHANT, who stayed with them a few days.

Our subject was married in Council Bluffs, in 1856, to Miss Eliza J. PATE, who was a resident of Harrison County at the time. She was born in Indiana, April 29,1840, and when quite small her parents came to Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1852 started for California, but upon reaching Council Bluffs, where they remained a short time, they abandoned their trip and came to Harrison County, where our subject's wife made her home until she was married. Mr. and Mrs. LOCKLING are the parents of five children�Lyman A., deceased, Harrison D., Eva C., an infant deceased, and Edna M.

The father of our subject, a. W. LOCKLING, was born in Vermont, and remained in the Green Mountain State until the spring of 1849, when he came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and in the autumn of 1851 came to Harrison County, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying in June, 1889, aged eighty-three years. His wife, Thirsa (STREETER) LOCKLING, was born in Massachusetts and is now in this county.

The father of our subject bought a claim, which is a part of his present farm (our subject's); twenty-five acres had been broken, and two log cabins had been erected. He got a half section in all, but it was before any survey had been made; it cost him $1.25 per acre. When the survey was made he found he had only two hundred and forty acres of land. Here the family lived in the log cabin until the autumn of 1856, when they put up a frame house, one story and a half high, 19x26 feet. Our subject remained with his parents on this farm until the spring of 1856, and then went to Blair, Neb., or rather two miles north of where that place was afterward platted, and with a party of men laid out the town of Cummings City. The place never amounted to much. It had a boom in 1856, and claims were sold for $15 per acre around it, but finally became defunct. In the autumn of 1856, our subject returned to Harrison County, settled in Raglan Township, where he had taken a claim as soon as he was old enough. He was only able to get forty acres, as most of the land had been taken before he was twenty-one years of age. This "forty" was on section 24, and he lived on this place for several years, then bought a part of his father's farm, where he now lives.

Mr. LOCKLING is a carpenter by trade and at an early day followed this at Magnolia, helping to build the first house that was erected in that village. He has eighty acres in his home farm, and one hundred and sixty acres in the Missouri Valley, and another of one hundred and twenty acres.

Politically our subject is identified with the Alliance party, and in religious matters he and his wife believe in the final salvation of all, but that we will be punished and rewarded according to the deeds done in the body.

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