[The Fidelity and Casualty Company letterhead not transcribed] [underlined: Who's Who in America:] [?] in Chicago Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennett, lawyer; [born] Royalton, N.Y. Oct. 24, 1830; [d.?] Lewis Johnson, and Hannah (Green) Bennett; [graduated] [Genesee College] Lima N.Y. 1857 (A.M., [Syracuse University], 1871) [married] first 1848 Uriah H. McNall - (died 1853) [2nd]. 1869, Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood - (died April 23 - 1877). Taught school 1857-68 - Worked for, and secured passage by Congress of bill giving women [employees] of [government] equal pay for equal work. Studied law in Washington; [graduated National University], B.S., 1873; Admitted to D.C. law; secured passage of bill admitting women to U.S. Supreme Court, 1879. was admitted under it, Feb. 1879;- also to U.S. Court of Claims; has been engaged to many important law cases, several before the U.S. Supreme Court; for years identified with claims of N.C. Cherokee
[The Fidelity and Casualty Company letterhead not transcribed] [underlined: 2] Indians vs. U.S., was one of [attorneys?] in [probate?] of will of Myra Clark Gaines - Took a course of lectures [University Extension], in Oxford, England 1890 - Prominent in Temperance, peace and woman suffrage movements; nominated 1884 and 1888, by Equal Rights Party for President of U.S.; commissioned by [State Department] to represent U.S. at Congress of Charities and Corrections, Geneva, Switzerland, 1896; one of [Committee appointed] by Federation of Woman's Clubs which secured law giving equal property rights for women, and equal guardianship of their children in D.C. Elected Jan. 18, 1901 [president] [Woman's National Press Association]; [president D.C. Woman Suffrage Association]; [secretary American branch International Peace Bureau Lecturer] - Writer on peace and arbitration and on political and social subjects; has prepared amendment to Statehood bill before Congress granting suffrage to women in Ohio, [Arizona] and [New Mexico].
