LOCKRIDGE, Albert C.
Albert C. Lockridge
Source: Weik's History Of Putnam County, Indiana
Illustrated 1910: B. F. Bowen & Company, Publishers Indianapolis, Indiana
Author: Jesse W. Weik Page 719-720
Among Franklin township's successful farmers and influential men of affairs is Albert C. LOCKRIDGE, who is the owner of a fine farm which he renders highly productive by the latest scientific methods, reaping abundant harvests from year to year as the result of the energy, time and thought expended upon it, and he is regarded as one of the leading young farmers of Putnam county. He comes from a good old pioneer family. His birth occurred near Greencastle, Indiana, February 20, 1873. He was reared on the home farm which he worked during crop season when he became old enough, attending the district school in the winter-time, remaining on the place where he was born until he was thirteen years of age when he moved to Racoon, in the northwest part of the county, and remained there five years. In 1891, he came to Roachdale, Franklin township. After his preliminary education in the common schools he attended DePauw University for one year, after which he took a year's course in a business school. He worked on the farm until 1900, when he purchased a farm of his own, and in 1904 he built the old elevator at Roachdale and he has been engaged in the grain business ever since in connection with his farming. He buys and ships all kinds of grain and hay, having built up an extensive and lucrative business. He also has an interest in the Bainbridge lumber yard at Bainbridge, Indiana, where the firm handles not only lumber, but also cement, coal, grain and all kinds of seeds, flour, feed, etc., doing an extensive business. Besides these extensive interests, he is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and forty-two acres in section 2, Franklin township, which he looks after personally, giving it a great deal of attention, as already intimated, especially to the raising of grain, at which he is very successful. The place is well improved and he has a modern, comfortable and attractive home. He has been very successful in all business operations owing to his soundness of judgment, his ability to forsee the outcome of present transcations and his honorable dealings with his fellow men, which has gained their confidence. Mr. LOCKRIDGE was married to Alice HILLIS, of Greencastle, where she grew to maturity and where she received her education, being a graduate of the high school there. She is the daughter of a highly respected citizen of that place, where her family were long well known. This union has resulted in the birth of three children: Louise, born in 1897, Elizabeth, born in1900, and Nellie, born in 1903. Mr. and Mrs. LOCKRIDGE are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, anf fraternally, Mr. LOCKRIDGE is a member of Roachdale Lodge, No. 602, Free and Accepted Masons, which he has served as secretary; he is alos a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 297. He is a Prohibitionist and is a member of the board of town trustees of Roachdale. Personally he is a pleasant man to know, a good mixer, straightforward and unassuming.