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Revision as of 23:25, 22 December 2008 by JohnWBarber (talk | contribs) (create this article)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)LeGrand Lockwood (died February 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 ran Lockwood & Company, one of Wall Street's leading brokerage houses, and was a longtime ally of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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 historian Kenneth D. Ackerman, the "dominant figure" of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad. "After hours of haggling over a dinner of oysters, wine and steak at Delmonico's late one August night", Fiske came to an agreement with Lockwood that Fiske's Erie Railroad would build a line into New York City for the narrow-gauge cars used by Lockwood's company in return for connections between the Fiske railroad to the west. 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.
- ^ Ackerman, Kenneth D., The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005, ISBN 9780786714421 via Google Books, retrieved December 22, 2008