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

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Arthur, of Kinderhook, N. Y., a latly of estimable character, who died in 1850. Their children were Arthur I., now of San Antonio, Texas, and Frederick E., Isabella B., Albert C, and Theodore, all of New York City.

Mr. Lockwood was a man of upright character and was highly respected. He was not eminent as an advocate, but was posse.^sed of good common sense, and was a safe adviser in legal matters. Through the political influence of his partner. General Aaron Ward, who was for a long time a member of Congress, Mr. Lockwood obtained a great deal of pension business. Ralph Lockwood, a brotlier of Albert, was an attorney in New York, and acquired a large business and a high reputation. General Munson I. Lockwood, at one time clerk of Westchester County, and agent and warden of Sing Sing Prison, was another brother.'

Stephen D. Horton gave promise of obtaining eminence at the bar, but met with an early death. • He was descended from Barnabas Horton, who came to this country from England in 1640. Stephen was the son of Wright Horton, of Yorktown, and Ann Quers his wife, and was born in Yorktown October 3, 1808. He came to Peekskill in 1831, began the study of law with Hon. William Nelson, became the partner of the latter in 1835, and a few years afterwards engaged in practice by himself.