The Evening Star Washington, D. C., Thursday, March 16, 1905 p5 col 6

LOCKWOOD. On Thursday, March 16, 1905, at 3 a.m., in Buffalo, N. Y., PHILO J. LOCKWOOD

The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Fort Wayne, Indiana Saturday, March 18, 1905 p7 col 3

PHILO J. LOCKWOOD DEAD.

Was a Citizen of DeKalb County and Prominent in Its Affairs All His Life

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(Special to the Journal-Gazette.)

AUBURN, Ind., March 17 - A telegram was received here last evening announcing the death of Philo J. Lockwood, in Pierce's hospital, at Buffalo, N. Y., where he had undergone an operation just a week ago.

Mr. Lockwood was reared in DeKalb county, being a son of Alonzo Lockwood, one of the earliest and wealthiest pioneers of Jackson township, in this county. From his father's estate he got his start in life to build a fortune. When about nineteen years of age he began the study of law and soon afterward he removed to Arkansas, where he practiced his profession and taught school. While teaching there he invested his money earned by teaching in state orders. It was just at the close of the war and there was a question about the legality of the issue of the orders which made them sell on the market at about 14 cents on the dollar. Nevertheless Mr. Lockwood bought them and soon after the purchase the courts declared the constitutionality of the issue and in a short time he cleared in that business venture the neat sum of $12,000. He was there elected judge and for some time served in that capacity, after which he returned to Auburn, Ind., to engage in the practice of law. In the early seventies he began to pay his attention to the pension law and about that time removed to Washington, D.C. Here his practice grew until at one time he employed twelve clerks and assistants, and his net earnings mounted up to $40,000 a year. He had for many years large investments in DeKalb county, but within the past few years he has gradually shifted his holdings here until at the time of his death he had disposed of most of his properties. He, at the time of his death, was vice-president and director of a bank in Washington, D.C., and his estate is estimated at a million dollars. He leaves a wife and three children, besides brothers and sisters and other relatives in DeKalb county. The remains were shipped to Washington, D.C., where the funeral and interment will take place. His will, disposing of his estate, has not yet been published.