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Newspaper articles about Belva Lockwood
Photocopies, many of which are cut off or incomplete. Contains newspaper articles, tributes, political cartoons, and her obituary. Also includes sheet music for a song about Belva Lockwood written by De Wolf Hopper. The articles, some of which were written by Lockwood, discuss for campaigns for president of the United States, her prominent cases as a lawyer, and her peace and women's suffrage activities. There are also many articles announcing her birthdays later in life since she had become a very prominent figure.
Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917
1884-1917
91 pages
reformatted digital
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, SCPC-DG-098
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, SCPC-DG-098 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/scpc-dg-098
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‘Zidhat august tribunal, the first worian in
Thursday, Dec. 7, 1911
Wepresentative Committee. ~
he committee which has inaugurated
a affair is representative of every phase
women's work. In includes, among
fiers, Mre. John Otis Yustabrook, of the
Yniversal Peace Union; Miss Minnie F.
Mickley, D. A. R.; Miss Ellen: B, Foster,
oman’s National Press Association,
Mrs. Sarah Doane La Fetra, Mrs. Clinton
Smith, and Mrs. Emma Sanford Shel-
ton, Woman's Christian Temperance
mion; Mrs. Edith Kingman Kern, Amer-
can Penwomen's League; Mrs. Carrie B.
ont, Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, and Mrs.
$C, W. MacNaughton, State Equal Suf-
Vfrage Association; Mrs. D. L. Chipman
land Miss Edith R. Mosher, American
Woman's League; Mrs. John A. Logan
‘apd Mrs. Nannette B. Panl, Woman's’
Professional League, and Mrs. Josephire
Arnold Rich, Federation of Women's
4 Clubs. . uo :
jl Has Had Notable Career.
| Mrs. Lockwood was born in Royalton,
}.Niagara, County, N. Y., on October 2,
4830. Her first marriage occurred when
she was eighteen years old, and when
her husband died, in 1853, she became a
prominent educator, being & professor of
Snigher mathematics, logic, rhetoric, and
‘potany. She came to this elty at the
Aclose of the civil war and began the
Vetuay of law. She graduated in 1873 from
tthe National University Law School,
dhaving in the meantime married Rev.
4 Ezekiel, Lockwood, a Baptist minister,
Vwho died in 1877. On September 23, 1873.
Tphe was admitted to the bar of the
Bupreme Court of the District, and at
Yonce entered upon the active practice of
cher profession. :
4 In 18% she applied for admission to the |
Court of Claims, but was refused on the |.
}pround that she was a woman and that!
‘She was a married woman. The contest
was ‘a bitter one, but short, sharp, and
ecisive. In 1876 Mrs. Lockwood's ad-
fSupreme Court was moved, but was re-
reused on the ground that ‘there were no
nglish precedents for the admission of
jomen to the bar.” >
Secured Act of Congress.
It was in vain that she logically plead-
that Queens Eleanor and Elizabeth
aa both been supreme chancellors of
he realm, and that: at thé assizes of
ppleby, Ann, Countess of Pembroke, sat
{th the Judges on the bench. Nothing
qunted, she drafted. a bill admitting
‘omen to the bar. of the Supreme Court,
eoured its introduction in both Houses
of Congress, and after three years’ ef-
‘ort aroused enough influence and public
sentiment to secure its passage in Janu-
tary, 1879. On March 8 of that year Mrs.
‘} Lockwood was admitted to the bar of
‘ithe world on whom ,the honor was con-,
|} ferred. i
i Mrs. Lockwood has made severa! trips
abroad as a representative to peace con-
iterences, and upon one occasion in Paris
fyead an able paper in French upon inter-
jmational arbitration. She was also in-
estrumental forty years ago in securing
the enactment of a law giving women in
Egovernment employ equal pay with as
Lockwood-0102_55
reformatted digital
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, SCPC-DG-098 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/scpc-dg-098
Lockwood-0102_55