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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.
