Biographical Sketch of Lockwood, Englehart & Co., St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Lockwood, Englehart & Co.  Samuel Lockwood was born at Willow Grove,
Kent County, Delaware, March 19, 1812, the fourteenth of a family of
eighteen.  At the age of fourteen, as was then the rule, was appren-
ticed to a hat manufacturer at Frederica, Kent County, Delaware, 
serving seven years, and learning his business thoroughly.  At the
close of his time, he started for Louisville, Kentucky, but being of
delicate constitution and threatened with consumption, he enlisted
June 13, 1833, in the First Regiment of the United States Dragoons,
then forming, Company C, of which Jefferson Davis was First Lieuten-
ant, H. Dodge commanding.  After three years' campaigning in the then
wild regions of the West, the regiment was disbanded, and Mr. Lockwood
settled at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, in his old business. Found
the Mormons there, after being driven from Jackson County, a quiet,
intelligent, industrious people, always to be relied upon.  When work
was wanted, always on hand.  Staying but six months at Liberty, he
went to St. Louis, Missouri, working there as a journeyman hatter 
until 1850, when he came to St. Joseph, with $300 in his pocket, a 
stout heart, strong arm and intelligent brain.  Opened the first store
devoted to one branch of business...hats...and year after year, by
patient industry, laid the foundation of his fortune.  About 1857, he
commenced jobbing, and having the nerve during the troublous times of
the war to lay in a large stock early, although mortgaging everything
he had in the world to enable him to do so, he made money when others
were utterly ruined.  In the spring of 1868, Mr. George J. Englehart,
the present manager of the firm, became associated with Mr. Lockwood, 
and millinery was added to the stock, Mr. Englehart, from this time
doing the buying, and from 1872, when Mr. Lockwood retired from active
business, although he still retained his capital interest, Mr. Engle-
hart has had the entire management of the business, one of which any
city might reasonably be proud.  Mr. Englehart showed something of his
mettle by the erection last year of the finest finished store house in
the city, the finest indeed, for the purpose in the state, being more
complete in its detail than any hat house even in Chicago.  In July,
1868, Mr. Robert Winning, the financial manager and dispenser of credits
entered the employment of the firm as bookkeeper and cashier, and has
done much to place the firm in its present enviable position, appreci-
ating which, the firm admitted him to partnership in its profits Jan-
uary, 1878.  Mr. J. A. Johnston, employed as a traveling salesman for
eight years on the Santa Fe Railroad, was admitted into the firm Jan-
uary, 1880.  This year, 1881, the firm has added gents' furnishing
goods to their stock, employing to take charge Mr. T. H. Murdow, of
Chicago, a gentlemen of long experience in that line.  Mr. Englehart
came to St. Joseph from Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1865, as a partner of the
dry goods firm of Tootle, Fairleigh & Co., staying in the same one year.
Then formed a firm in the hat business with Major S. A. Garth, as the
firm of Englehart & Garth, in the spring of 1868.

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