Timothy T. Lockwood was Mayor

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 of the City of Buffalo, New York

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, serving 1858–1859. He was born in North East, New York

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 in 1810. In the early 1830s, he studied medicine at Philadelphia Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. He returned to Buffalo around 1842 and became a member of the Erie County Medical Society. In 1851, Lockwood was appointed city health physician under Mayor James Wadsworth

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. He was married to Charlotte of Hamburg, New York

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; she died and he re-married on October 25, 1869, this time to Louise C. Francher.

He was elected as mayor of Buffalo on June 9, 1857 as the Democratic

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 candidate. His term as mayor ended on January 3, 1859. After his term expired, Lockwood resumed his medical practice. On December 23, 1870, he died in Utica, New York

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, and was buried between the bodies of both his wives in Forest Lawn Cemetery

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