| John Locke | |
| Birth Date: | 19 February 1792 |
| Birth Place: | Lempster, New Hampshire, US |
| Death Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio, US |
| Occupation: | Naturalist, professor, photographer, publisher |
| Education: | Yale School of Medicine |
John Locke (February 19, 1792 – July 10, 1856) was an American naturalist, professor, photographer, and publisher.[1] He was the first American to exhibit photographs to the public.[2]
John Locke was born in Lempster, New Hampshire on February 19, 1792. He graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 1818, but gave up medical practice in favor of teaching.[1]
He married Mary Morris on October 25, 1825.[1]
Locke made a geological survey of Ohio in 1838,[1] some of which was included in Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848).[3] He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1844.[4]
He died in Cincinnati on July 10, 1856.[1] [5]