Background
Hand, Richard Lockhart was born on February 15, 1839 in Elizabethtown, New York, United States. Son of Augustus Cincinnatus and Marcia Seelye (Northrup) Hand.
Hand, Richard Lockhart was born on February 15, 1839 in Elizabethtown, New York, United States. Son of Augustus Cincinnatus and Marcia Seelye (Northrup) Hand.
Sophomore year, University of Vermont. Bachelor of Arts, Union College, New York, 1858, Master of Arts, 1865 (honorary chancellor and Doctor of Laws, 1887).
Admitted to bar, 1861, and since in practice at Elizabethtown. President Elizabethtown Water Company, Elizabethtown & Westport Plank Road Company. Secretary, treasurer Elizabethtown Cemetery Association Editor Elizabethtown Post, 1859-1867.
Was president of village and Chairman of the Board education.
Commissioner State Board Charities, New York, since 1908. Commissioner state prisons, appointed, 1907.
Commissioner in charges against District Attorney Jerome, 1908. Democratic nominee for company judge, 1878, 1890, for justice Supreme Court, 1885, 1903.
Home: Elizabethtown, New New York
Married Mary Elizabeth Noble, June 29, 1868.