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Locke (DAVID ROSS pseudonym PETROLEUM)

DAVID ROSS, pseudonym PETROLEUM V. NASBY, an American humorist; born in Vestal, Broome co., N. Y., Sept. 20; 1833. He learned the trade of printer. He took charge of the Toledo "Blade" in 1865, and at once became popular as a humorous writer and later as a lecturer. He began his "Nasby" letters in 1860 and continued them throughout the war. They were coltecta. In novels whi critics but the public. licity wad yne in 1 The next ye "The Beloi wed by "S ester," 191 The Fort 1915. y read of MPSON, sifier; bor ars as préc me, and m as a write er society 8" (1857) and in Lampse of Lamp ighter be arried L 1,1895.

JOEN rand Lanarika was ed gained a xford; never y career the ne gazine. ghter Pa the P mile bea factur Jumb Ith mina LOCKE lected and published in book form in 1868, under the title of "Swingin' Round the Circle" and "Letters from Confederit X-Roads." He died in Toledo, O., Feb. 15, 1888. shire, in 1632. He was educated at Westminster and Christchurch College, Oxford. In 1666 he was introduced to bury was appointed lord-chancellor, he bury, and when in 1672, Lord Shaftesbury was appointed lord-chancellor, he made Locke secretary of presentations, and at a later period, secretary to the tion, Locke accompanied him. The English envoy demanded Locke of the JOHN LOCKE States, on suspicion of his being con cerned in Monmouth's rebellion, which necessitated his temporary concealment.

At the revolution he returned to England and was made a commissioner of appeals, and in 1695 a commissioner of trade and plantations. He resided the last few years of his life, at Oates, in Essex. As a philosopher, Locke stands at the head of what is called the Sensational School in England. His greatest work is the "Essay on the Human Understanding."

Civil Government," "Letters on Toleration," "On the Conduct of the Understanding," "Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity." He died in 1704.

His other works are the "Treatise on