This is a transcription of the Mrs. Nathaniel Chaes Locke biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 133.
Mrs. Nathaniel Chase Locke
BORN of good old New Hampshire stock, and directly descended from David, Prince of North England, Mrs. Nathaniel Chase Locke, of Salem. Mass., is well worthy a place among the representative daughters of the Granite state. She is a daughter of John Thompson and Sallie (Lewis) Felch, of Francestown, N. H.. born March 1, 1837. The first Felch to come to America, from North Wales, was Henry, who settled in Gloucester, Mass., in 1641. A son located in Reading, whence a grandson, Daniel Felch, removed to New Hampshire, where his descendants have since resided. Three of her ancestors served in the Revolution, and another, John Felch, was a soldier in the War of 1812. On the maternal side she is also well connected, the Lewises of Greenfield, originally from France, being among the best people of the town. Other ancestors, the Thompsons, were among the first settlers of Francestown, and cleared the first land. Miss Felch, though reared on a farm, had good educational advantages, finishing at the noted Francestown Academy, where Franklin Pierce was fitted for college. At the age of twenty-one she was united in marriage with Nathaniel C. Locke, now head of the Locke Regulator Company of Salem. They resided for a time in Concord, but subsequently removed to Salem, which has since been her home. She has two children, Albert N. and Sarah A. Locke, both talented and accomplished. Mrs. Locke is a member of the “New Hampshire’s Daughters” club of Boston, and the Salem “Thought and Work” club, and has held high office in the United Order of the Pilgrim Fathers. She has a taste for painting, as is indicated in her pleasant home in Salem.