Homer Lockwood was born in Victory, Cayuga County, NY. He was the son of Homer Lockwood whose father was Isaac Lockwood, a Revolutionary War patriot from Brookfield, Fairfield County,Connecticut. In 1817, Homer’s father, Homer, left Connecticut and traveled to Cayuga County in New York State. His journey took him three weeks of travel over corduroy roads and marked trees. He married Sarah Benedict Lockwood, also from Fairfield County, Connecticut and they settled in a wilderness area of Cayuga County where Sarah gave birth to three children: Samantha, Homer Nicholas, Isaac and George. Homer Nicholas was educated in Fulton, New York. He was a topographer by trade and from 1858 to 1865 he travelled extensively through the southern United States and West Indies mapping those areas. His maps of Cuba and Puerto Rico were published in Spanish. In 1865 he aided in building the New York Southern and Central Railroad. Homer Nicholas was married to Catherine Elizabeth Genter, daughter of a prominent Fort Plain lawyer, James Genter and granddaughter of Henry Crouse, Fort Plain’s brickmaker in 1866. In that same year, he was elected to the New York State legislature serving one term. Catherine and Homer lived in Auburn, New York but moved to New York City in 1880. Catherine passed away in 1888. Homer continued to live in New York City as a publisher according to the 1900 census. By 1910 he was living in Washington, DC. Homer Lockwood was a friend of Fort Plain residents, Jeptha Simms, Seeber Lipe, and Harvey Wick. Together they placed monuments at the site of Fort Plain and the blockhouse. Homer also contributed $2000 to the newly formed Fort Plain Library. Following his death he was buried with his wife in the Fort Plain Cemetery. Someone wrote the following: “No spot on earth is as near to Him as the green mound on the hill, in our beautiful cemetery, where rests his beloved wife.”