John T. Lockman

      GEN. JOHN T. LOCKMAN DEAD.
    Old New York Lawyer and President
        of St. Nicholas Society.
 Gen. John T. Lockman died Friday
evening at his home, 140 West Seventy-
third Street. He was 78 years old. Gen.
Lockman was born in New York City,
where for seven years he served in the
old Volunteer Fire Department. At the
outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a
private in the Ninth New York Regi-
ment, and at its conclusion was brevetted
Brigadier General of Volunteers for meri-
torious service in the capture of Atlanta.
Gen. Lockman resumed his interrupted
study of law, and in 1872 became a mem-
ber of the firm of DeWitt, Lockman, & De
Witt.
 Gen. Lockman was a Vestryman of
Trinity Church, a Director of the Law-
yers Title Insurance and Trust Com-
pany, the Lawyers Mortgage Company,
and the Mortgage Bond Company, a mem-
ber of the St. Andrew's Society, the Met-
ropolitan, Church, Army and Navy Clubs,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
American Museum of Natural History,
and President of the St. Nicholas Society.
He is survived by his widow, two sons,
and three daughters.