John Locke (naturalist)

John Locke (February 19, 1792 – July 10, 1856) was an American naturalist, professor, photographer, and publisher. He was the first American to exhibit photographs to the public. Locke made a geological survey of Ohio in 1838 some of which was included in Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis' '' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley'' (1848).Barnhart, Terry A. 2005. “Early Accounts of Ohio's Mounds” in ''Ohio Archaeology: An Illustrated Chronicle of Ohio's Ancient American Indian Cultures'' by Bradley T Lepper. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press. p-245 He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1844.

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19th-century American inventors
1792 births
1856 deaths
American educators
People from Sullivan County, New Hampshire
19th-century American botanists
19th-century American photographers

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