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In 1889, school had just let out for the summer. Guy Winslow Emerson, 5th great-grandson of Capt. John Locke, took his younger brother Lowe fishing. When rain approached, they boys took shelter under a hickory tree. Guy was leaning against the trunk of the tree when lightning struck and killed him instantly. Lowe was also injured severely but survived. Twenty years later, he started a life insurance company in Cincinnati.