Who Was Ingersoll Lockwood?

In 2017, a 4chan thread revealed Gilded Age author Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) imagined a character named Baron Trump who traveled to mysterious worlds, joked with others and returned home to Castle Trump on 5th Avenue. Where did Baron Trump come from? Lockwood wanted to try his hand at children's storybooks after seeing the success of Alice in Wonderland (1865). Potentially inspired by his wife Winifred Wallace Tinker's childhood hero Baron Trenk (1711-1749), Lockwood's storybooks gave way to political intrigue in "1900, or The Last President" (1896). In the Lockwoods' world was Edward R. Johnes who would marry Winifred in 1892. The man behind the Monroe Doctrine Anglo-Venezuelan tribunal of 1899, Johnes had a history of backdoor dealing and New York club establishment. Settling in New York cottage Idlewild where they lived until their deaths, the Johnes seemed to live comfortably while Lockwood died in anxiety and reclusivity in Saratoga Springs. Decades later, computer scientist John McAfee established a website, Ingersoll Lockwood, dedicated to discovering and financing new technology. This rebirth of Lockwood coincided with the rise of the Trump political family.

Sources:

Lockwood, Ingersoll (1912). In Varying Mood, or, Jetsam, Flotsam and Ligan, p. v. Ingersoll Lockwood.

Lockwood, Ingersoll (1892). The Baron Trump Collection.

Lockwood, Ingersoll (1896). 1900 or The Last President.

Winifred Wallace Tinker (1896) Memoirs of a Little Girl.

Idlewild. House Histree. https://househistree.com/houses/idlewild ; https://archive.ph/v8kAA

Edward Rodolphe Johnes. https://househistree.com/people/edward-rodolph-johnes ; https://archive.ph/qCisL

https://archive.org/details/johnesedwardrodo00amer

https://www.geni.com/people/Winifred-Wallace-Tinker/6000000149217554853

https://www.geni.com/people/Raymond-Paul-Middlebrook-Johnes/6000000149217554848

https://www.geni.com/people/Edward-Johnes/6000000149213598886

https://www.ingersolllockwood.com

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