Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-19
.BELVA LOCKWOOD
CALLEOB DEATH
Pioneer Woman Lawyer
and Suffragist Passes
Away at Age of Sc.
Was First Woman Admitted to Prac.
tice Before United States Supreme
Court and Only Woman Ever Nomin-
atsd fer Presidsnt-Her Own Story
Of How She Became a suffrasist.

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3. Lockwood. ths nrst woman admitted
to practice before the supreme court,
a pioneer in the woman's suffrage
movement and the only woman who
ever was "a candidate for president of
the United States, died here today af-
ter q long Illness. eyed So years. i.
Mrs. Lockwood had herself tcid the
aneedote OF how shesbecame one OF
the first women in this country to figh.
for equal rights. A, widow at "a years
of age, with a child. she was teaching
school in her native town, Royalton,
N. Y, at salary OF only SO week.
Men teachers doing the same work
we're getting twice rs much. or more.
Il kicked to the school trustees" she
said. Il went to the wife of the Meth
odist minister. The answer got opeE-
ed my eyes and raised my dander. She
said: I can't help you; you can not
help yourself, for 1T Is the way Of the
world"
The then apparent hopelessness Of
woman's cause SO aroused her that she
fought for more than fifty years
against the exclusion Of women from
rights which men enjoyed. She forth
fed herself with collegiate education
at Genesee College in the days when
higher education was rare among wo-
men, and for successive periods was
Of seminaries at Lockport,
GAINESVILLE and Oswego. N. Y.
Leader Among Women.
In each place she was a leader among
women's societies, and when at tho
close of the civil war she removed to
Washington, she was determined 70 be-
come a lawyer and win a place before
the bar. In the meantime she married
again to the Rev. Ezekiel Lockwood.
q Baptist clergyman in Washington,
who died nine years later in 1877.
Her first husband had been Uriah H.
McNall, q young farmer In Royalton.
Soon after her second marriage she
began study at the National Univer-
sity Of Law, and upon graduation, after
spirited controversy, was admitted to
practice before the supreme court of
the District Of Columbia.
II never stopped fighting" she said.
"My cause was the cause of thousands
Of women. I drew up bill admitting
women to practice at the bar Of the
United States supreme court. and I had
1t passed"
This victory made her widely ao-
claimed. She herself was the first
woman to take advantage Of the new
law, and at tho age Of 49 was admitted
to the highest court in the land.
She won several notable legal battles,
the case OF the Eastern Cher
okees VS.. the United States, in which
she secured a settlement Of $4,000. 900
for the Indians.
During President Garheld's admin
istration she made an unsuccessful ap-
plication for the Brazilian mission.
Candidate For President
The most striking incident Of her ca
reer then came, in 1884, With nomina-
ton by the equal rights party Of the
Pacific slope as q candidate for the
presidency of the United states. Vain
as the action was It was . unique dis
ttnction. The nomination was renewed
by the same party meeting in Iowa
four years later.
when the notice Of my hrss nomina-
tion came" Mrs. Lockwood has related,
81 did not know what to do with It. so
i stuck it in my pocket, and kept It q
secret for several days. until I was
asked to support Ben Butler for the
presidency. I can't do It., answered,
4 have q nomination myself" The
politician appeared skepttcaL SO she
produced tho document. under pledge OF
secrecy but before night It was in the
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