The branches of the Lockwood and St. John family trees are intertwined with one another and the history of Norwalk. A total of 170 Lockwoods fought in the revolutionary and colonial wars. Frederick Lockwood was born on August 23, 1825 in Norwalk. His parents were Col. Buckingham St. John and Polly (St. John) Lockwood. He graduated in 1849 from Yale University, where he was a classmate of Timothy Dwight , the eighth Yale president. He eventually assumed the role of caretaker of the Lockwood estates in Ohio and Connecticut. He married Carrie, daughter of Frederick Ayres, in 1866 and they had two daughters.
His career included stints as a soldier (on the staffs of Major-Generals King and Russell), bank commissioner (1859-1862) and a three-time Republican representative for Norwalk in the legislature (1865,1866 and 1872). In later years he assumed prestigious positions as president of Danbury and Norwalk Railroad (1882), president of Fairfield County National Bank (1868-1890) and a director of the Norwalk Savings Society. His religious and other affiliations included being a congregationalist, a Knight Templar, member of the Norwalk Club and of the “Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolutionary War.”
Source and notes: Transcribed in 2008 from materials at the Norwalk museum.
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