Biography of 	LOCKETT, Andrew Moore, Marian, AL., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, 
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 261-262.  Edited 
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical 
Association.

Lockett, Andrew Moore, well-known and representative business man, was born 
in Marion, Ala., Sept. 4, 1865, and son of Powhatan and Martha (Moore) 
Lockett.  His father was born in Powhatan county, Va., about 1832, removed 
to Marion, Ala., when about 7 years old, grew up there and became a 
lawyer.  Upon the breaking out of the Civil war, he wanted to have a part 
in it, but, being lame, he could not enlist, so he went to the war as a 
staff officer, paying his own expenses, and doing what he could.  He died 
at Montgomery, Ala., in 1880, where he had lived only 2 years.  Martha 
Moore was born in Marion, Ala., and was a daughter of Andrew Barry Moore, 
who was governor of Alabama when that state seceded from the Union.  
Before secession Gov. Moore had seized the munitions of war within the 
borders of the state and for this offense, after the war was over, he was 
imprisoned by the Federal government at Fort Pulaski, in the same prison 
in which Alexander H. Stevens and other prominent Southerners were 
confined.  In a few months, however, he was released from prison and 
practiced law in Alabama until he died in 1873.  S. H. Lockett, an uncle 
of Andrew M., graduated at West Point, and at the beginning of the war was 
captain of engineers in the Federal army, which position he resigned and 
reported to Gov. Moore.  He was first engaged in military operations in the 
state of Alabama, but afterwards was an engineering staff officer under 
General Beauregard.  As chief engineer for Gen. Pemberton at Vicksburg, he 
designed and constructed the fortifications there.  After the war, this 
S. H. Lockett became professor of engineering at the Louisiana state 
university, and was recommended by Gen. Sherman to the Khedive of Egypt.  
He served in the Egyptian army for several years as an engineering officer, 
after which he returned to America and was assistant to Gen. Stone in the 
erection of the Bartholdi statue in the New York harbor.  Subsequently he 
went to the United States of Columbia and engaged in engineering work there 
until his death in Bogota, about 1895.  A. M. Lockett lived in Marion, 
Ala., until he was 13 years old; attended private school, also Howard 
college, and after his father's death in 1880, attended the University of 
Tennessee at Knoxville for 1 year.  Following this he went to Texas and 
worked for a railroad company for 4 years, after which he attended Stevens 
institute at Hoboken, N. J., 1 year.  In 1887, he entered the service of 
Henry R. Worthington Co., manufacturers of hydraulic machinery, in New York 
City.  Mr. Lockett served an apprenticeship with that company and 
afterwards engaged in engineering work for them up to 1893, when he was 
transferred to the commercial end of the business and put in charge of the 
St. Louis office.  In 1898 he was made assistant sales manager.  In 1899 he 
came to New Orleans and went into business on his own account with some New 
York people, under the name of A. M. Lockett & Co., which firm was 
subsequently incorporated under the laws of Louisiana.  Mr. Lockett is now 
president, and active in the business of the company, which is that of 
machinery merchants and contractors for mechanical installations.  This 
concern has grown from 5 employees in 1899 to about 40, and now has a 
branch in Houston, Tex.  It is still representing the Henry R. Worthington 
Co., also the Babcock & Wilcox Co. of New York, as well as several others. 
Mr. Lockett is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
and of the Louisiana Engineering society, having been vice-president of the 
latter organization.  He is a member of the Boston, Chess, Checkers and 
Whist, Audubon Golf, and the Country clubs, the Auto league, the 
Association of Commerce, the Hoo Hoos, and the Jovians (an electrical 
organization).  He is also a member of the New Orleans Board of Port 
Commissioners, the Contractors and Dealers' Exchange, and the campaign 
committee of the Good Government league.  He is president of the New 
Orleans Well Drilling Co.  In 1895, at Little Rock, Ark., Mr. Lockett was 
married to Miss Anna, daughter of B. B. Waddell, of Memphis, Tenn.  To 
them, 2 children have been born, 1 son, Andrew Moore, Jr., and 1 daughter, 
Elizabeth.  Mr. Lockett is one of the energetic and prosperous business 
men of his adopted city, and is highly esteemed in both business and social 
circles.