Interviewer
Rick Dietz
Files
Description
Stephen Adolph Lockwood relates stories told by his grandfather about his participation in the Civil War. He also discusses his occupations through the years and his perspectives on historical events like the First World War, Prohibition and bootlegging, and the Great Depression.
Biography
Stephen Adolph Lockwood was born July 16, 1896, at Fort Branch, Indiana. He went to school there, continuing through his second year of high school. He worked in a coal mine in Indiana for two years, then moved to Hastings, Minnesota. There he worked first at the Hastings State Hospital, and then at the Shane Brothers &Wilson flour mills. After several years in Hastings, he returned to Indiana to start farming. Two years later, he settled on a farm near Spooner, Wisconsin. Mr. Lockwood was married and had two children.
Date of Interview
1-5-1979
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Length (Time)
57:37
Original Format
Audio tape
Current Format
Mp3
Named Persons
Walter Lockwood, Emma Lockwood, James Crilley, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Edward Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, Woodrow Wilson, David Glasgow Farragut, John Joseph Pershing, Pancho Villa, Al Capone, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., Andrew John Volstead, Carry Amelia Nation, John Dillinger, Bonnie Elizabeth Parker, Clyde Champion Barrow, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Professions
Coal miners, Nurses, Flour mills—Employees, Farmers, Grocery trade
Organizations
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, United States Military Academy, Shane Brothers & Wilson Company, United States. Navy, United States. Works Progress Administration
Places
Minnesota—Annandale, Indiana—Fort Branch, Africa, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia—Savannah, Virginia—Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio River, Minnesota, Minnesota—Hastings, Minnesota—Minneapolis, Indiana, Wisconsin—Spooner, Louisiana—New Orleans, Mississippi River, Mississippi—Vicksburg, Mexico, South Dakota, South Dakota—Aberdeen, England, Scotland, Minnesota—Saint Cloud, North Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota—Duluth, Wisconsin—Superior, Illinois—Chicago, Minnesota—Buffalo
Keywords
American Civil War (United States: 1861-1865), Slavery, Coal mines and mining, Agriculture, World War (1914-1918), Prohibition, Alcohol trafficking, Great Depression
ID Number
S2630 2634
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce these oral interviews must be obtained in writing from Minnesota State University Moorhead Archives.
Disciplines
Oral History | Social History
Recommended Citation
Lockwood, Stephen Adolph, "Oral Interview of Stephen Adolph Lockwood" (1979). Oral Interviews. 39.
https://red.mnstate.edu/oral_interviews/39