Ralph Ingersoll Lockwood

Ralph Ingersoll Lockwood (1798 Greenwich – 1855 New York City)[1] was an American political writer, lawyer and novelist.[2] Lockwood was one of 136 signatories to an 1838 petition to Congress on the matter of copyright and intellectual property.[3] He also wrote under the pseudonym "Mr. Smith".[4] Lockwood's nephew, Ingersoll Lockwood, was a lawyer and writer.[1]

Ralph Ingersoll Lockwood
Born1798 (1798)
New York City, U.S.
Died1855 (aged 56–57)
New York City, U.S.
Pen nameMr. Smith
Occupation
  • Writer
  • lawyer
  • novelist
RelativesIngersoll Lockwood (nephew)

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • The Insurgents. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard (1835)[5]
  • Rosine Laval

Political writings

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  • An Address to the Republicans and People of New-York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Upon the State of Presidential Parties
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  • An analytical and practical synopsis of all the cases argued and reversed in law and equity : in the Court for the Correction of Errors of the state of New York, from 1799 to 1847 : with the names of the cases and a table of the titles, &c
  • Essay on a national bankrupt law
  • A treatise on the law of husband and wife : as respects property : partly founded upon Roper's treatise, and comprising Jacob's notes and additions thereto, with John Edward Bright, Edward Jacob and R S Donnison Roper

References

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  1. ^ a b Holden, Frederick A. and Lockwood, James (1889). Descendants of Robert Lockwood. Colonial and Revolutionary history of the Lockwood family in America, from A.D. 1630, pp. 702–704.
  2. ^ Henry Clay (5 February 2015). The Papers of Henry Clay: Presidential Candidate, 1821–1824. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 845–. ISBN 978-0-8131-5669-9.
  3. ^ Melissa J. Homestead (17 October 2005). American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869. Cambridge University Press. pp. 63–4. ISBN 978-0-521-85382-8.
  4. ^ T.J. Carty (3 December 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-135-95578-6.
  5. ^ Robert A. Gross (1993). In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. University of Virginia Press. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-8139-1354-4.