Sacramento County
Biographies
RICHARD
STANLEY LOCKETT.
RICHARD STANLEY LOCKETT, deceased, was born near Somerset, Kentucky, February 13, 1818. From 1839 to 1843 he was a ship carpenter in Missouri, and thence until 1850 he worked at his trade in Louisiana, spending most of his time in New Orleans. For four years he was a pilot on the Mississippi River. In 1850 he came to California by water, and worked at his trade in San Francisco a few weeks, building a schooner. Coming to Sacramento, he opened up a restaurant and saloon on the corner of Third and K streets. Having bought the southwest and southeast corners there he erected a building, but the great fire succeeding occasioned him great loss. In 186- he entered a quarter-section of Government land, and purchased another quarter-section, a part of which is now within the limits of the city of Sacramento. The estate, now conducted by his widow, in conjunction with an adopted son, is seven miles from Sacramento, in Brighton Township, and consists of eighty acres, thirty acres of which are in vines and other small fruits. Some of the vines are over twenty years old. Mr. Lockett was one of the charter members of the Sacramento Grange, and took a great interest in the cause of the Patrons of Husbandry during his life. In 1883 he was nominated by the Republicans for the Assembly, but was defeated, along with the whole ticket. He was a very popular man, on account of his good qualities of character and intelligent understanding of the principles of statesmanship, especially as understood by his party. Mr. Lockett was married in 1871 to Mary Lockard, a native of Columbus, Ohio, and daughter of John and Mary McLain, both her parents of Scotch descent. She was a child when her parents died, and was brought up near Columbus by persons who were not relatives. Her mother, by her first husband, Mr. Charlton, had had five children, and by her second husband six children, and Mrs. Lockett is the only member of the family now living so far as she knows. She came to California in 1868.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 676-677. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.