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fessional and civic activities. While yet a
young man in the field of medical practice
Dr. Lockhart conquered many a hill of
difficulty, and he recorded numerous triumphs
over early hardships while he was
winning his way into the confidence of the
people whom he so earnestly desired to
serve with the best that he could give
them of his native talent and acquired
skill. It was not long, however, before he
had won many laurels and numerous
friends. His patients and other acquaint-
ances found in him a loyal and true friend,
a wise counselor in their hours of illness
and a sincere and sympathetic comforter
in times of deepest trial. "His kind deeds
and genial personality will be remembered
for many years to come." In 1891 Dr.
Lockhart was appointed a medical examiner
for the John Hancock Life Insur-
ance Company. He continued in that association
until the time of his death. Dur-
ing his incumbency he had gone into
thousands of homes containing applicants
for insurance, and by his tact, friendly as
well as formal offices, he had added to his
already long list of close and enduring
friendships.
Dr. Lockhart was a member of the
Order of Heptasophs, the Woodmen of
the World, St. John's Lodge, No. 3, Free
and Accepted Masons ; Samuel Harris
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows; Joseph Dowling Lodge, Knights of
Pythias; Ivy Grove Lodge, Woodmen's
Circle ; the Foresters of America, the
Bridgeport and Fairfield County Medical
associations, Yale Alumni Association,
Delta Epsilon Iota fraternity, Nu Sigma
Nu Medical Fraternity, the Brooklawn
and Algonquin clubs, and of the staff of the
Bridgeport Hospital. He is a Republican
in politics and served on the board of
Aldermen and the Board of Education of
the city of Bridgeport; a member of
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Washington Park M. E. Church and
trustee of Trinity M. E. Church.
Dr. Lockhart married, June 13, 1894,
Elizabeth Uschman, daughter of Frederick
and Henrietta Loezer Uschman, one
of the well known and older residents of
Bridgeport. To them were born two sons
R. Harold Lockhart, born November 25,
1902, a medical student at Yale, and Royal
Arthur Lockhart, born June 8, 1900.
WATSON, General Thomas Lansdell,
Banker and Broker.
The city of Bridgeport has produced
many notable characters who have loomed
large in the world of finance and industry,
but none has occupied, perhaps, a larger
place, inclusive of the American metropolis,
than did General Thomas L. Watson,
born in Bridgeport December 13, 1847,
died December 10, 1919, who became a
power in financial institutions, an execu-
tive of a number of large organizations,
vice-president of the New York Consoli-
dated Stock Exchange and brigadier-gen-
eral of the Connecticut Brigade of the
National Guard, in which position, as in
all others, he distinguished himself for
unusual ability. General Watson was of
that type of men who accomplish things
by sheer force of native capacity plus a
rich fund of information that came to him
through long years of valued experience
with men and affairs on high planes of
endeavor. Like so many men who have
risen from humble beginnings to places
of trust and responsibility, in which they
have merited the confidence reposed in
them by their associates, the while they
more securely and with remarkable success
erected the basis of their career. Gen-
eral Watson made every move count for all
that was worth from every ounce of worth
that was in him as he patiently and with
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