Born near New Haven, Huron County, Ohio, March 2, 1826. He spent his boyhood on a farm near Fremont Ohio. He attended Oberlin College, law school at Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar in October 1854. Mr. Dana was married at Fostoria, Ohio, February 16, 1854 to Harriot A. Davis. In the fall of the same year they moved to Iowa, locating first at Sigourney in Keokuk County. About a year later they moved to Marshalltown, and in April 1 he located finally at Nevada. He early gained recognition in this pioneer community, and in the election of 1857 he was elected to the general assembly as representative for the counties of Story, Hardin and Grundy. In the session that followed the state located its ''Agricultural Farm,'' in this county and from this beginning there has developed the Iowa State College. Mr. Lockwood was mayor of Nevada and a school board member. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.