He soon commanded a large and lucrative professional business, which he retained to the end of his busy life. Up to within a few years of his death he had been employed in nearly every case of magnitude in this and the adjoining counties of Putnam and Rockland. Mr. Tompkins died at his residence in White Plains, August 23, 1872, in the seventy-first year of his age. He left a widow and two children. He was a strong advocate before a jury, and in the trial of a good case had few equals.

Albert Lockwood held a position of prominence in his day at the Westchester County bar. He was the sixth child of Stephen Li^kwood, who was b'jrn in Connecticut in 1764, and married Sarah Ingersoll in 1790. Albert was born in Stanwich, Conn., November 18, 1802. The family removed from Connecticut to the town of Ossining, Westchester County, about 1825, where Stephen Lockwood j)urchased a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, located about a mile from Sing Sing. Albert worked with his father and brothers on the farm in summer, and taught the district school during the wintar, and daring his leisure time studied law. He was admitted to the bar when about twenty-seven years old, and in 1831 formed a partnership with General Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing, which lasted until about 1848. From 1847 until 1851 Mr. Lockwood was county judge, and further political honors would doubtless have been bestowed upon him but for his death, which occurred November 18, 1852. In 1852 he was the Republican nominee for Supreme Court justice. In 1833 Mr. Lockwood married Eliza Jane, daughter of Jacob