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LeGrand Lockwood (1820 – February 24, 1872), was a businessman and financier in New York City in the late 19h century. He built the Lockwood-Mathews mansion in Norwalk, Connecticut. Lockwood was born in Norwalk. He began his career on Wall Street as a clerk for Shipman, Coming & Co. and later worked for T. Ketchum & Co. In 1843 he became junior partner at Genin & Lockwood〔Obituary, ''New York Times'', February 25, 1872〕 before founding Lockwood & Company, one of Wall Street's leading brokerage houses, and was a longtime ally of Cornelius Vanderbilt.〔Ackerman, Kenneth D., (''The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869'' ) Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7867-1442-1 via Google Books, retrieved December 22, 2008〕 Lockwood was a director of the New York Central Railroad and treasurer of the New York Stock Exchange.〔 In the summer of 1869, Jay Gould, attempting to create a railroad empire with a connection from New York City to the Pacific coast, negotiated with Lockwood, the treasurer and, according to author Kenneth D. Ackerman, the "dominant figure" of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. "After hours of haggling over a dinner of oysters, wine and steak at Delmonico's late one August night", Ackerman wrote, Gould came to an agreement with Lockwood that Gould's railroad would build a line into New York City for the narrow-gauge cars used by Lockwood's company in return for westward connections. Lockwood agreed to the deal despite opposition from Vanderbilt, who was simultaneously trying to gain control of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern by electing proxies to the board of directors.〔 Learning of the deal, Vanderbilt launched a raid on Lakeshore's stock, which sunk the price from $120 a share to $95 and put Lockwood in danger of personal bankruptcy. Lockwood began making plans to scuttle the deal with Fiske.〔 He managed to sell his shares in Lakeshore to Vanderbilt for the bargain price of $10 million, turning over control of the company to him. 〔Schlichting, Kurt C., (''Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City'' ) JHU Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8018-6510-7, via Google Books, retrieved December 22, 2008〕 In 1867, Lockwood commissioned Albert Bierstadt's ''The Domes of the Yosemite'', the artist's second great, monumental Yosemite work, for $25,000. It was the artist's largest canvas and sparked a critical debate when it first appeared at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. Lockwood hung the painting in the octagonal rotunda of his Norwalk, Connecticut, mansion.〔Scott, Amy, (''Yosemite: Art of an American Icon'' ), University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-520-24922-6, retrieved via Google Books, December 22, 2008〕 After Lockwood's death in 1872, the painting sold at auction for $5,100.〔Web page titled ("This Week from the Gallery Archives" ) at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum website, retrieved December 22, 2008〕Lockwood also bought works by Frederic Church, William Bradford, and Asher B. Durand.〔Charles, Eleanor, ("The Guide" ) "A Tycoon's Taste", notice of an art exhibit at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, ''The New York Times'', February 24, 1991, retrieved December 22, 20087〕 Lockwood died in his Fifth-Avenue home in New York City on February 24, 1872. At his death he was a director of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the principal owner of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad.〔 ==Notes and references== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LeGrand Lockwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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