LOCKWOOD, Belva Ann Bennett, American lawyer and reformer: b. Royalton, N. Y., 24 Oct. 1830; d. Washington, 19 May 19f7. She was graduated from Genesee Col lege, Lima, N.. Y., in 1857, and taught school 1857-68. She was married in 1848 to Uriah H. McNall (d. 1853), and in 1868 to Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood. She studied law at Wash ington, and was admitted to the bar in the Dis trict of Columbia after a hard struggle in 1873. Before that time she had secured the passage of a bill giving women employees of the gov ernment equal pay for equal work; in 1879 she obtained the passage of a bill permitting women to practise before the United States Supreme Court, and was admitted under this law in the same year. She was engaged in many impor tant law cases, some before the Supreme Court, and was one of the attorneys in the probate of the will of Myra Clarke Gaines. She was active in temperance, peace and women suffrage movements; was secretary of the American branch of the International Peace Bureau; and in 1884 and 1888 was the nominee of the Equal Rights Party for President of the United States. In 1896 she was commissioned
by the Secretary of State to represent the United States at the Congress of Charities and Corrections in Geneva, Switzerland; in 1901 she was elected president of the Women's National Press Association. She was for sev eral years interested in the claims of the North Carolina Cherokee Indians, and in 1900 had a bill before Congress to prevent encroachment upon their territory. She was an attorney of record in their case against the government, when they obtained a $5,000,000 judgment. She also prepared an amendment to the Statehood Bill before Congress in 1903, granting suffrage to women in Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico.