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Daniel Lockwood died on June 1, 1906 at the age of 62. Born in Hamburg, NY, in Mr. Lockwood graduated from Union College in 1865. He went on the become a lawyer, and served as District Attorney of Erie County from 1874-77. Lockwood was elected as a Democrat to the 43rd United States Congress, and served from 1877-79. He was a delegate to the 1884 Democratic National Convention, where he nominated Grover Cleveland for President. Lockwood was U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and was then elected again to the 52nd and 53rd U.S. Congresses—serving from 1891-95. After the end of his political career he resumed his law practice before serving as the general manager from New York at the Pan American Exposition in 1901, the site of William McKinley's assassination. In 1903, Lockwood was appointed to the New York State Lunacy Commission, a position which he held until his death. The original Lockwood Library, which was on the University of Buffalo’s South Campus and designed by architect E.B. Green, was a gift of Thomas Lockwood, son of Daniel, and his wife Marion Birge Lockwood to the University, in memory of Daniel Lockwood and Marion’s father George K. Birge. Daniel Lockwood is buried in section 1 in Forest Lawn.