Background
Locke, Edwin was born on February 9, 1857 in Brookville, Indiana, United States. Son of Review John W. and Matilda (Wood) Locke.
Locke, Edwin was born on February 9, 1857 in Brookville, Indiana, United States. Son of Review John W. and Matilda (Wood) Locke.
DePauw University, 1870-1872. Bachelor of Arts, McKendree College, 1877, Master of Arts, 1880. (Doctor of Divinity, Taylor University, 1896).
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1880. Pastor in Kansas at Woodbine, 1880-1881, Brookville, 1881-1882, Seneca, 1882-1883, Sabetha, 1883-1885, Centralia, 1885-1887, Frankfort, 1887-1889, Lyndon, 1889-1892, Argentine, 1892-1894, Central Avenue Church, Kansas City, 1894-1898, Holton, 1898-1903. Presiding elder, Topeka District, 1903-1909.
Again pastor Central Avenue Church, Kansas City, 1909-1911, Euclid Avenue Church, Topeka, 1911-1917, London Heights, Kansas City, since 1917.
Assistant secretary and secretary Kansas Conference, since 1884. Assistant secretary General Conference, 1904, 12, secretary, 1916.
Secretary Methodist Temperance Society, 1912-1916. Trustee Baker U. (Baldwin, Kansas), Mechanical Engineering Home for Aged (Topeka).
Associate editor Discipline of the Mechanical Engineering Church, 1916.
Editor General Conference Journal, 1916. Home: Kansas City, Kansas
Married Evangeline Hogaboom, December 20, 1881 (died 1883). Married second, Mary A. Myers, August 19, 1885.