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Belva Ann Bennett

Belva Ann McNall, Dr. Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood

24 October 1830—19 May 1917

Emmeline B. Wells

Born 24 Oct. 1830 at Royalton, Niagara Co., New York.1 Daughter of Lewis Johnson Bennett and Hannah Green.2 Married first Uriah H. McNall, 1848; one child.3 Husband died, 8 Apr. 1853.4 Attended Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, Livingston Co., New York; graduated with honors, 27 June 1857.5 Moved to Washington DC, Feb. 1866.6 Married second Ezekiel Lockwood, 11 Mar. 1868, in Washington DC; one child.7 Applied for admission to Columbian Law School, 1869, but was refused.8 Received a master’s degree at Syracuse University, 1870.9 Attended National University Law School in Washington DC; graduated with a bachelor of laws degree, 1873.10 Admitted to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 3 Mar. 1873.11 Became the first woman admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, 3 Mar. 1879.12 Interacted with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, EBW, and other leaders in suffrage activities.13 Ran as a U.S. presidential candidate, 1884, 1888.14 Lectured in Salt Lake City, 6 July 1885.15 Commissioner for the Universal Peace Union at the Universal Exposition in Paris, 1889; presenter at the International Congress of Peace in London, 1890; elected a member of the International Peace Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, 1892.16 Met EBW at the Columbian Exposition, 7 June 1893.17 EBW visited her in Washington DC, 7 Mar. 1895.18 Died 19 May 1917 in Washington DC; buried in the Congressional Cemetery.19

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

Born at Royalton, Niagara County, New York; daughter of Hannah Green and Lewis Johnson Bennett. Died at Washington DC. 20 (See Document 4.15)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925,” database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed 13 Mar. 2018), Belva A Lockwood; from Passport Applications, 1795–1904, NARA. 1830 U.S. Census, Royalton, Niagara Co., NY, p. 372, Lewis J. Bennett. Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 41.

  2. 2 Edward T. James, Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 2:414. Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 41. “Funeral of Mrs. Bennett,” Evening Star (Washington DC), 20 July 1900, 13.

  3. 3 Anne Bozeman, “The Presidential Campaigns of Belva Lockwood” (research paper, Georgia State University, 2009), 5 (http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_ura/4, accessed 6 Mar. 2018). Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 41.

  4. 4 Anne Bozeman, “The Presidential Campaigns of Belva Lockwood” (research paper, Georgia State University, 2009), 5 (http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_ura/4, accessed 6 Mar. 2018). Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 41. “Uriah Harrison McNall,” Chestnut Ridge Cemetery, Gasport, Niagara Co., NY; Find a Grave, 19 Oct. 2015, memorial no. 153977114 (http://findagrave.com, accessed 31 Dec. 2019). 

  5. 5 Belva A. Lockwood, “My Efforts to Become a Lawyer,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1888, 217–218. Anne Bozeman, “The Presidential Campaigns of Belva Lockwood” (research paper, Georgia State University, 2009), 5 (http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_ura/4, accessed 6 Mar. 2018). Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 42. 

  6. 6 Belva A. Lockwood, “My Efforts to Become a Lawyer,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1888, 221.

  7. 7 District of Columbia, Clerk of the Superior Court, Marriage Records, 1811–1950; Indexes, 1811–1986, Dr. E. Lockwood and Mrs. Belva A. McNall, microfilm 20792252, DGS 4539707, image 802/1982, FHL. Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 42. Belva A. Lockwood, “My Efforts to Become a Lawyer,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1888, 217–218.

  8. 8 Belva A. Lockwood, “My Efforts to Become a Lawyer,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1888, 222.

  9. 9 Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 43.

  10. 10 Edward T. James, Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 2:414. Belva A. Lockwood, “My Efforts to Become a Lawyer,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1888, 222–224. Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 44. Anne Bozeman, “The Presidential Campaigns of Belva Lockwood” (research paper, Georgia State University, 2009), 8 (http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_ura/4, accessed 6 Mar. 2018).

  11. 11 Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 44. Anne Bozeman, “The Presidential Campaigns of Belva Lockwood” (research paper, Georgia State University, 2009), 8 (http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_ura/4, accessed 6 Mar. 2018). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3 (Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, 1886), 72.

  12. 12 Belva A. Lockwood, “My Efforts to Become a Lawyer,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1888, 229.

  13. 13 Ida Husted Harper, “Brief History of Woman Suffrage,” Relief Society Magazine, May 1920, 265. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3 (Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, 1886), 5, 57, 65, 72. EBW, Diary, 4 Dec. 1891; 4 Mar. 1894; 13 Feb. 1898.

  14. 14 Anne Bozeman, “The Presidential Campaigns of Belva Lockwood” (research paper, Georgia State University, 2009), 10–17 (http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_ura/4, accessed 6 Mar. 2018).

  15. 15 “Belva A. Lockwood,” Salt Lake Herald, 5 July 1885, 1, 4.

  16. 16 Sylvia G. L. Dannett, “Belva Ann Lockwood, Feminist Lawyer,” Courier 8, no. 4 (July 1971): 49.

  17. 17 EBW, Diary, 7 June 1893.

  18. 18 EBW, Diary, 7 Mar. 1895.

  19. 19 District of Columbia, Health Department, Internments, 1855–1874, Death Certificates, 1874–1961, certificate nos. 234001-237000, 1917, Mrs. Belva Lockwood, microfilm 2115879, DGS 4548834, image 2845/3217, FHL.

  20. 20 Dumas Malone, ed., Dictionary of America Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933), 6:341. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Nov. 2012), memorial no. 1559, Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood; Congressional Cemetery, Washington DC. “Belva Ann Bennett, 1830–1917,” Individual Record, Family Tree database (Ancestor ID: MPP9-48G), FamilySearch, accessed 21 Nov. 2023, familysearch.org.