Thomas B. Lockwood

Thomas Brown Lockwood (February 7, 1873 – August 19, 1947) was an American lawyer, banker, politician, and philanthropist from Western New York.

[4] In Chicago in 1884, his father had nominated his close friend Grover Cleveland for President who appointed him the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York upon his election.

[7] After his father's death in 1906, the firm dissolved and he became a solo practitioner with an office at 77 West Eagle Street in Buffalo.

In 1911, he resigned as secretary when Mayor Louis P. Fuhrmann appointed him a member of the Small Parks Commission.

[9][10] Both Lockwood and Glynn lost in the general election to Republicans Edward Schoeneck and Charles S. Whitman, respectively.

After the death of his wife in 1932, he married Mildred (née Frances) McGuire, a daughter of Thomas Francis,[14] on November 20, 1934, who survived him.

At the time, it was said that "only Harvard, Yale and the University of Michigan would own more comprehensive collections of first editions and other rare books.