[5] As a boy, he was poor and his father died early so he had to move in with his relative, Timothy T. Lockwood, the Mayor of Buffalo from 1858 to 1859.

[3] In 1865, he graduated from Union College in Schenectady,[2] where he became a member of the Alpha charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

[7] Lockwood was appointed the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York by President Cleveland, and served from 1886 to 1889.

[6] In 1903, Lockwood was appointed by Governor Benjamin Odell to the New York State Lunacy Commission, a position which he held until his death.

[7] Together, they were the parents of two children: Lockwood died on his birthday[4] at his home in Buffalo, New York, on June 1, 1906, after suffering from diabetes and gangrene.