Edwin Forrest Locke.
Mr. Edwin Forrest Locke, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Brown) Locke, was born in Charlestown, January 9, 1847, and died in Amherst, N. H., October 3, 1905.
He was descended from Dea. William Locke, one of the first settlers of Woburn and others who assisted in organizing different towns of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
His great-grandfather, Lieut. Samuel Locke, served at Dorchester Heights in 1776; another great-grandfather, Joseph Brown, was in the Battle of Bennington, and a great-great-grandfather, Caleb Kimball, was in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
His early education was obtained at the public schools and at Chauncy Hall.
When about nineteen he entered the employ of his father at Faneuil Hall Market, and in a few years was admitted to the firm under the name of Isaac Locke and Company, in which he continued as long as he lived.
He was an active member of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Massachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution, and the Medford Historical Society.
When a young man he belonged to the Charlestown Cadets.
In 1869 he was married to Willimina F. Leonard of Charlestown.
She died in 1875, and he was married in 1880 to Emma P. Boylston of Amherst, N. H. [p. 74]
Three children were born to them, Willimina Boylston (Mrs. Kenneth Hutchins), Howard Revere, and Mabel Emma.
In 1890 he and his family removed from Chelsea, where they had been residing, to West Medford.
In November, 1904, he was taken ill, and in the spring of 1905 a beautiful farm in Amherst was bought, hoping that the pure air of the pines, combined with the best medical skill, might restore his failing health.
He was an ardent admirer of flowers, an enthusiastic lover of nature and out-door life.
But neither the bracing air of the New Hampshire hills nor the enjoyment of foreign travel could restore him to health.
He died greatly lamented by a wide circle of friends, both among his business associates and others with whom he had mingled.
He was a man of rare courtesy and sympathy, fastidious in all his tastes, with a gentleness rarely seen in either man or woman.
He was devoted to his family, and yet one of the doors to his heart and home opened with wide hospitality to all.—
D. H. B.
