Ingersoll Lockwood (08/02/1841 – 09/30/1918) was an American lawyer and writer. As a writer, he is particularly known today for his Baron Trump children's novels. However, he wrote other children's novels, as well as the dystopian novel, 1900: or; The Last President, a play, and several non-fiction works. Laconics of Cult is Lockwood's criticism of organized religions with their "shadowy gods on their shadowy thrones," and his attempt to create a "New Cult" of the "Immortal Human."