The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n New York city,died therein 1790. The Lockwood houseat White Plains stood on the plainthat was traversed by Washing-tons earthworks, and close by isan old mortar abandoned byWashi
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n New York city,died therein 1790. The Lockwood houseat White Plains stood on the plainthat was traversed by Washing-tons earthworks, and close by isan old mortar abandoned byWashington in his retreat. Itwas in this battle that Ingersoll, great-grandfa-ther of Howard Lockwood, losthis life. About a mile distantfrom the Lockwood residence isthe building occupied by Wash-ington as his headquarters, and where may beseen a handsomely bound register, the gift ofGen. Munson I. Lockwood. After completmg hiseducation, Mr. Lockwood removed to New Y^orkcity, and in 1865 was employed in a paper ware-house in Duane street, where, paying strict at-tention to business, he soon acquired a thoroughknowledge of the paper trade proper, and of thescope, extent, and processes of paper that the paper business required a news-paper to represent its constantly developing energies,in 1873 he established the Paper Trade Journal,from which has grown the large business known as. the Lockwood press, and which has served as thefoundation of several other successful newspapers,such as the American Stationer,, The AmericanMail and Export Journal, the American Book-maker, and Lockwoods Directory of the Paperand Stationery Trades, which has long been a stan-dard work. On Oct. 35, 1883, Mr. Lockwood mar-ried Carrie Baker Done, a granddaughter of the lateBowles Colgate. Mr. Lockwood was an activemember of the Typothetee of New York, and repre-sented it at the meeting in Chicago in 1887, whichresulted in the formation of the United first co
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