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Greenland coast on May 1, 1882. At this point he sent back all his party with the exception of Sergt. D. L. Brainard, and an Eskimo by tliename of Christiansen, and from there proceeiled north, reaching Cape Britannia after a five days' tramp. From there he travelled over an unknown covm- try and discovered Lockwood Island and Cape Wasliington on May 13, 1883, which was 350 miles from the north pole and at that time the most nortlierly point readi- ed by man. He re- turned to the party, arriving at Fort Con- ger, Discovery Har- bor, June 17, 1883, having accomplislied in sixty days a jour- ney of over 1000 miles over the ice, the thermometfr making 49° below zero much of the time. A second attempt in 1883 to reach a point still furtlier north failed through the breaking up of the ice-pack over which they were journeying, and late in 1883 Lockwood and Brainard crossed Grimiell Land on a dog-sledge to a point fifty miles beyond that reached by Lieutenant Greeley on foot. The party spent the winter of 1883-84 at Camp Clay, Cape Sabine, wliich point they reached the last of September, 1883, and where they found, that the relief ship Proteus had been crushed in July. The part}' had only six weeks' food supply, and the men perished slowly of starvation, only six being alive when Com. W. S. Schley came to their rescue with the Thetis and Bear, June 23, 1884, Lieuli'iiaiit Lockwood liaving died April 9, 1884. LOCKWOOD, Robert Wilton, painter, was born in Wilton, Conn., Sept. 11, 1861; son of John Lewis and Emily (Middlebrook) Lockwood, and grandson of George W. Lockwood and of Col. James Middlebrook. In 1880 he became a pupil of John La Farge in New York city. He studied in Paris, 1885-95, and devoted his attention exclu- sively to portrait painting. He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1898. He exhibited at Champs de IVIars, 1894-95- 90, and received the silver medal at the Inter-

national Exposition, Paris, 1900. Among his more important works are: Portrait of Otto Roth, the violinist, which won the third prize at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and the Temple gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia in 1898; French Sailor (1895); Master of the Fox Hounds (1896); portrait of Gen. Francis A. Walker (1899).

LOCKWOOD, Samuel, naval officer, was born at Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 34, 1803; son of Thomas St. John and Hannah (Wliitlock) Lockwood; grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Betts) Lockwood, and of Daniel and Ruth (Scribner) Whitlock, and great*-grandson of Robert Lockwood, the immigrant. His parents removed to Newburgh, N.Y.. where he attended school. He was ap- pointed a midshipman in the U.S. navy, June 12, 1830, and visited the West Indies and the Medi- terranean on the Hornet, Congress. Constellation and Constitution. He was promoted lieutenant, May 17, 1838, served in the Mediterranean squad- ron in 1838; on the Brazil station, 1831-33; on the Pacific station, 1834—36; on the receiving ship Hudson in New York, 1836-37: on the frig- ate Macedonia, 1837-38; on Commodore Jones's exploring expedition to the Mediterranean as 1st lieutenant of the sloop Cyane, 1838-39; and on the Ohio under Commodore Hull, 1839-41. He was married Aug. 31, 1843, to Maria, daughter of Joseph and Sarah P. Dunbar of New Bedford. Mass. He served on shore duty, 1843-46, as 1st lieutenant on the frigate Potomac of the home sipiadrcn, 1846-47; in command of the steamer Petrita and Scourge, in the capture of Vera Cruz, Tnspan and Tobasc;o, and on blockade dut}% 1847-48. He was promoted commander, Oct. 8, 1850; commanded the sloop Cyane on the Pacific station. 1858-60, and the steamer Daylight of the North Atlantic squadron, 1861-63. At the battle of Hatteras Inlet, 1861, and while blockading the approach of Cape Henry, Va., he engaged with a shore battery at Lynnhaven Bay, Oct. 10, 1861, silenced it and rescued a Baltimore ship. He then blockaded Wilmington and Bean- fort, N.C., and assisted a portion of the army in the capture of Fort Macon, April 26, 1862, being senior commander of the blockading division. He was retired, Oct. 1, 1864, and was promoted commodore on the retired list. April 4, 1867. He died at Flushing, L.I., N.Y., July 5, 1893.