Luke Vincent Lockwood
Luke Vincent Lockwood was born February 1, 1872, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Luke A. Lockwood and his wife, Mary Louise Lyon, daughter of Captain William Lyon and Catherine Mead.[1]
Lockwood was the fifth great-grandson of the English immigrant and Greenwich colonist, Robert Lockwood and his wife, Susan Norman, daughter of Captain Richard Norman.
Lockwood was a lawyer and an author in the field of furniture design of the Federal Period in United States. He has been termed the "pioneering furniture scholar" in America.[2] He married on November 16, 1897, Alice Gardner Burnell. He died January 23, 1951, at Greenwich, Connecticut. He was also a very active member of Acacia Lodge No. 85 of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons in Greenwich, Connecticut.[3]
Selected works[edit]
- Colonial Furniture in America, Luke Vincent Lockwood, Scribner Publishers (1901)
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Line notes[edit]
- ^ Hubbard, Frederick A. (1926). History of Masonry in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1763-1926 (1st ed.). Stamford, CT: The Gillespie Brothers, Inc. p. 44, 166.
- ^ Brown's essay on American furniture scholars
- ^ Hubbard, Frederick A. (1926). History of Masonry in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1763-1926 (1st ed.). Stamford, CT: The Gillespie Brothers, Inc. p. 44, 166.
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