California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


FRANCIS EDGAR LOCKWOOD.  Was born in Westchester County, New York, August 8, 1838, and is the 
son of Nathan and Mary Miller Lockwood. In 1857 he went West, and settled in Ottawa County, 
Michigan, where he began the lumber business, which he followed until 1861. He then returned to his 
birthplace, where he sojourned for one year. In 1864 he came via the Isthmus of Panama to California, 
and immediately located in Napa, where he embarked in the dairy business, which he followed for 
three years. He then began farming at Soscol and continued for two years. He then spent a portion of 
the year 1869 in the mines at Black Rock, Nevada, and once more returned to Napa County, where he 
was engaged in the building of the Geyser, Cobb Valley and Howell Mountain roads, which occupied 
him three years. In 1872 he began the liquor business at Rutherford station, and in 1876 he opened the 
general mercantile store of that place, and in 1881 purchased his present place of business, on the 
corner of Main and First streets, Napa. He was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Kilburn, daughter of 
Ralph L. and Maria Pope Kilburn, September, 1873, a native of California, and by this union they have 
three children: Nathan E., Frank E., and Edna.