Biography
Dr. Sarah H. Lockrey was a Philadelphia surgeon and a member of the National Woman's Party who took part in the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. (Recorded as Dr. Sarah Hunt Lockrey; April 21, 1863 - November 8, 1929)
She was arrested on August 6, 1918 and released on bail. She then paid the fine rather than serve the sentence, so that she could carry out scheduled surgery. She did not serve a jail term, and this record no longer claims one: an earlier version credited her with fifteen days in August 1918, which she did not serve.
Stevens records a nominal fifteen-day sentence. The current individual case states that Lockrey paid the fine to perform surgery and served no jail term. Its fifteen-day actual override contradicts that disposition and is removed.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 11.
Stevens records Lockrey’s education at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, internship and later leadership of the gynecological clinic at Woman’s Hospital in Philadelphia, and surgical work at West Philadelphia Hospital for Women and Children. The entry records the distinction Fellow of American College of Surgery in 1914 and her congressional-district chairmanship for the National Woman’s Party.
