Marquis R and Mattie Lockhart
From the Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, published by the John M Gresman Company, Chicago-Philadelphia 1896
MARQUIS R LOCKHART, Commonwealth Attorney of Campbell County and a leading member of the Newport bar, son of Sarah (Richardson) and Henry Lockhart, was born in Lexington, Kentucky November 13, 1846.
His father Henry Lockhart, was born in the northern part of Ireland and came to the United States with his parents when he was twelve years of age. They located on a farm in New York, and Henry remained there until he was of age, and then came to Lexington and engaged in stock trading, going South every year to sell horses and mules, which he bought in Kentucky. He owned a farm near Lexington upon which he lived until 1861, and after the close of the Civil War he went to Paris and lived with his son until his death, which occurred in 1893, in the ninety-second year of his age. He was raised a Presbyterian, but connected himself with the Christian denomination after coming to Kentucky.
Sarah Richardson Lockhart (mother) was a native of Montgomery County; was a member of the Christian Church and died at the age of sixty years. Her father Marquis Richardson, was born in Clark County, Kentucky, but spent the most of his life on his farm in Montgomery County, six miles from Mt. Sterling, where he died, aged eighty years.
Marquis R Lockhart attended the public schools in Lexington, the Kentucky University at Harrodsburg before the war and was one year in the University of Lexington after the close of the war.
In May 1862, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Confederate army and served until his command was surrendered at Washington, Georgia in April 1865. He was with General Basil Duke's regiment in Morgan's Indiana and Ohio raid; was wounded in the battle at Bull's Gap, East Tennessee and saw some sharp fighting on many other occasions.
He was not quite twenty-one when he returned to Lexington and attended the university one year to pick up some of the lost threads of his education. He then began civil life as an educator; taught in the public schools of Mt. Sterling for one year; turned aside for one year and acquired valuable experience as editor of the Mt. Sterling Sentinel; taught in the academy at Sharpsburg for one year; was principal of the Bethel Academy for Boys at Nicholasville for three years, and in 1878, having read law while engaged in teaching, he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession in Owingsville, Bath County. He remained there for two years and then removed to Covington, where he gained a large and lucrative practice, remaining in that city for six or seven years, and then removed to Newport, where he has given his best efforts to the requirements of this vocation and with most gratifying results to himself and his friends.
As a means of recreation as well as for the advancements of the interests of the Democratic party, Mr. Lockhart has indulged to some extent in politics and in 1892 his party rewarded his valuable services by electing him commonwealth attorney of Campbell County for a term of five years. He has had charge of this office since January 1893.
Mr. Lockhart and Mattie Wilson, daughter of Harvey T Wilson of Covington, were married in 1870. They have one son and two daughters; Henry, Riba and Sallie.