Locke, Nathaniel C, D.D., a Presbyterian min- ister, was born June 1, 1816, at Salem, N. J., graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., in 1838; from Union The- ological Seminary, New York, in 1844 ; was immediately licensed by the New York Third Presbytery, and soon after entered upon the duties of his first charge at East- ville, Northampton County, Va. ; accepted a call to the Central Church, Brooklyn, in 1847; three years later took charge of the Church at Hempstead, L. I., N. Y., and there labored until 1860, when failing health com- pelled him to seek for a dismission. Dr. I^ocke was a member of the General Assembly of 1860, which met in Rochester, N. Y. A number of his discourses were ]Hib- lished, and he was also a large contributor to the relig- ious press. He died July 21, 1862. He was gifted with a well-trained and well-stored mind, and was emi- nently genial and social as a pastor and friend, and ear- nest and eloquent as a preacher. See Wilson, Presbyte- rian Historical Almanac. 1863, p. 188. (J. L. S.)
Locke, Samuel, D.D., a noted American divine and educator, was born at Woburn, Mass., Nov. 23, 1732, and was educated at Harvard University (class of 1755), He was ordained minister of the Gospel at
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Sherburne, Mass., Nov. 7, 1759, and remained in the ministry until 17G9, wlien he was called to preside over his alma mater, and was inducted to the office March 21, 1770. Three years later he was honored by the college authorities with the doctorate of divinity, but some troubles must have arisen shortly after, for in December of this self-same year Locke resigned his position at Harvard, and spent the remainder of his life in retire- ment. He died at Sherburne, Mass., Jan. 15, 1788. An estimate of the man we find in t^vo letters written by Dr. Andrew P^liot, of Boston, to Mr. Hollis, of London, the distinguished benefactor of the college, about the time of Locke's election to the presidency of Harvard Univer- sit}^, in which he is represented as " a clergyman of a small parish about twentj"^ miles from Cambridge ; of tine talents — a close thinker, having when at college the character of a first-rate scholar — of an excellent spirit, and generous, catholic sentiments — a friend to liberty — his greatest defect a want of knowledge of the world, having lived in retirement, and perhaps not a general acquaintance with books." The only production of Dr. Locke's that exists in print is the Convention Sermon preached in 1772. " His manner in the pulpit is said to have been marked by great dignity and impressive- ness." See The N. 1'. Observer, March, 1865.
Locke, "William E., a minister and instructor, first in the Baptist, and later in the Presbyterian Church, was born in New York City, where he received a good education at the high school, in which he subsequently became an assistant teacher. In 1832 he took charge of the Jlantua Manual Labor Institute in New York, and in 1833 was licensed to preach in the Baptist Church. He entered the junior class of Hamilton In- stitute (now Madison University) ; in 1835 he accepted his first call from the Church in Messina, N. Y., and was ordained Aug. 18, 1830. He remained in the Baptist connection until 1849, when his views concerning bap- tism led him to a change of his ecclesiastical relations. He was called in 1850 to the Presbyterian Church at Springfield, N. J., where, because of impaired health, he quit preaching. He subsequently took charge of the Female Collegiate Institute in Lancaster, Pa., and in August, 1857, removed to Missouri, and took charge of the Van Kensselaer Presbyterial Academy. At the end of his first quarter in this new position he was taken ill, and died Nov. 15, 1858. Mr. Locke's talents as a teacher were of a high order, and Ln the various places in which he labored he made manv warm friends. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Im. 1860, p. 73. (J. L. S.)
Lockyer, Nicholas, a Presbyterian divine and pious Nonconformist, was born in 1612. He studied at New Inn Hall, Oxford, and became provost of Eton College in 1658, but was ejected at the Restoration. He died in 1681. His writings show him to have been very zealous and affectionate, earnestly bent on the con- version of souls. Some of his most important works are the following : Baulme for bleeding England and Ire- land, or seasonable Instructions for 2'»ersecuted Christians, delivered in several sermons [on Col. i, 11, 12] (London, 1644) : — Chrisfs Communion with his Church militant [on John xiv, 18] (5th ed. London, 1672, 12mo) •.—Eng- land faithfully waicht with her Wounds, or Christ as a Father sitting vp with his Children in their sioooning State; which is the summe of several Lectures j)uinftdly preached upon Colossians i (Lond. 1646, 4to). See Alli- bone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Auth. s. v. ; Darling, Cy- clop. Bibliogr. a. v.
Locust, a well-known insect, which commits terri- ble (levastation to vegetation in the countries which it visits. In the following account we shall chiefiy follow the articles on the subject in Kitto's and Smith's Dic- tionaries, with additions from other sources.
I. There are ten Hebrew words which appear to sig- nify locust ill the Old Testament, while in the Greek the general term is cikmq, which is employed in the New Testament. It has been supposed that some of v.— H H