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Belva Ann Lockwood Biography

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LOCKWOOD, Belva Ann (Bennett) (1830- [1917]). An American lawyer and reformer. She was born at Royalton, N. Y., graduated in 1857 at Genesee College, Lima, N. Y., and after teaching school for 11 years studied law and was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in 1873. In 1879 she was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, under a law admitting women, which she had been instrumental in getting passed. She lectured frequently and became prominent in peace, woman suffrage, and temperance movements. In 1884 and in 1888 she was nominated for President by the Equal Rights party, and in 1896 represented the United States under a commission from the Secretary of State at the Congress of Charities and Corrections held at Geneva, Switzerland. She was a delegate to the Arbitration Convention, New York (1907) and to the International Peace congresses at London (1908) and at Rome (1911); and in 1913 she became a member of the International Peace Bureau at Brussels. She was married in 1848 to Uriah H. McNall, who died five years later, and in 1868 to Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood.