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Belva Lockwood biographical notes
Title:
Belva Lockwood biographical notes
Description:
Lockwood's handwritten notes for her biography. She recounts an incident in the case involving the Estate of General John Sevier; Emmetta Humphreys, administrator to the estate, attempted to have Lockwood dismissed from the case, but the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims dismissed Humphreys' Motion and praised Lockwood extensively.
Date:
1908-1917
Collection:
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Humphreys Adminx. v. the U.S. Chief notes
Title:
Humphreys Adminx. v. the U.S. Chief notes
Description:
Lockwood's handwritten notes, likely for her biography. She writes about the John Sevier estate case in which the judge denied Emmetta Humphreys' motion to have Lockwood dismissed from the case and praised her twenty-five years of service as a member of the bar. She then goes into detail about her struggle to get her law degree. She describes being rejected from Columbia Law College and Georgetown and then finally being admitted to the National University Law School (now the George Washington University Law School) but being denied her diploma because "some young men in the class did not wish to graduate with women." She transcribes the letter she wrote to President Ulysses S. Grant appealing to him for her diploma (Grant was chancellor ex officio of the National University Law School), and though she did not receive a direct answer from the president, a week later she received her diploma in the mail and was admitted to the bar the week after that. She also briefly discusses canvasing the South in support of Horace Greeley for president and claims that she gave "perhaps the first woman suffrage lecture ever made in the South." She notes that she is unable to give a very comprehensive account of the life of her second husband, Ezekiel Lockwood.
Date:
1910-1917
Collection:
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mrs. Lockwood and the Late Associate Justice Knott [sic], of the Court of Claims, now Retired
Title:
Mrs. Lockwood and the Late Associate Justice Knott [sic], now Retired
Description:
Lockwood's handwritten notes, likely for her biography. She discusses her interactions with Judge Charles C. Nott, beginning with her attempt to be admitted to the U.S. Court of Claims bar when working on the Charlotte Van Cort case. Nott wrote and delivered the lengthy opinion rejecting Lockwood from admission to the bar on the grounds that she was a woman. Nevertheless, Lockwood persisted and was eventually admitted to the U.S. Court of Claims bar and argued cases before Nott, who became Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Claims. She discusses at length the Eastern Cherokee case and writes that Judge Nott congratulated her on her efforts in that case. When Judge Nott retired, Lockwood and many other lawyers met with him, and he asked Lockwood for forgiveness for having turned her down so many years prior and Lockwood "with her characteristic generosity" told him that she never held anything against him.
Date:
1913-1917
Collection:
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College