Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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WILLIAM S. LOCKIE. � An industrious and progressive raisin grower 
who resides four miles north of Fowler on his well-improved ranch, is W. S. 
Lockie, popularly called Will Lockie, the influential and far-sighted repre- 
sentative of a notable Central California family sketched at greater length 
in the interesting outline of his father's life given elsewhere in this work. He 
helped to organize and is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Fowler; 
and all who know him look upon him as a man of the strictest integrity. 

Will Lockie is the fourth child of the late W. A. Lockie, widely known 
in his time and highly respected as a prosperous pioneer rancher, and was 
born in Solano County, Cal., May 7, 1874. He was a boy when the family 
moved to Oregon, and was twelve years old when they migrated to Weather- 
ford, Parker County, Texas, where they stayed for about seven and a half 
years. They then came back to California and settled in the De Wolf school 
district, and the son helped to plant the W. A. Lockie place of 180 acres, 
as he also planted his own sixty acres, to trees and vines, now bearing fully. 
Other improvements also were made, including a good residence, barns, etc. 

At the age of twenty-nine, Mr. Lockie was married in Fowler to Miss 
Fine Bradley, who died in 1912, leaving two children � Margaret, who is in 
the high school at Fowler, and Keith, who is attending the grammar school. 
Mr. Lockie was married a second time, in 1914, to Mrs. Alice (Donahue) 
Whittican, who was born in Nevada. She had one child by her first union, 
Bonnie Whittican, now attending school in the state of Virginia. Mr. and 
Mrs. Lockie took an active interest in such commendable work as that of 
the Liberty Loan drives, Red Cross and other war activities during the 
World War. They belong to the Christian Church at Fowler. Mr. Lockie is 
a Republican in matters of national political import, but is one of the first 
to support heartily, without partisanship, any good movement for local up- 
lift. He believes that just as the citizen gives close and intelligent attention 
to local problems, so will the nation as a whole be soundly organized and 
developed.