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1877–1952 · FORT WAYNE RESIDENT
In brief. The Fort Wayne Lockridge who belongs to this record in full is the father. Ross F. Lockridge, born in Miami County in 1877, came to Fort Wayne and worked from 1914 to 1922 as employment manager and welfare director at Wayne Knitting Mills; while here he helped organize the Allen County–Fort Wayne Historical Society, and he built the statewide reputation — pioneer histories for young readers, and his "Historic Site Recitals," part lecture, part drama — that made him "Mr. Indiana." His Fort Wayne-written book is Theodore F. Thieme, a Man and His Times (1942), a life of the knitting-mills founder he had served. He died in 1952. His fullest treatment is in the People section; this entry fixes his place on the author's shelf.
Sources: Indiana Historical Bureau, "Ross Lockridge Sr. and Jr." (Indiana History Blog); Indiana Magazine of History 112 (2016), on the Wayne Knitting Mills years; People Completeness note (banked).