Biography
Lavinia Lloyd Dock was the pioneer of American nursing — co-founder of what became the National League for Nursing, author of the first nurses' drug manual (1890). In 1917 moved to Washington and joined the advisory council of the National Woman's Party. First arrested in 1896 attempting to vote. As a Silent Sentinel arrested at least three times in 1917 and served sentences at Occoquan. In her late 50s, among the older suffragists imprisoned.
Stevens explicitly describes Dock’s three separate 1917 periods: three days in June, twenty-five days at Occoquan later that summer, and fifteen days in November. These total forty-three documented days across separate episodes; they do not establish one continuous stay beginning in June. The existing documented forty-three-day total is preserved.
The June 27, 1917 Washington report individually lists Lavinia Lloyd Dock among six suffrage picketers convicted in police court following White House banner demonstrations. It reports an alternative of a $25 fine or three days and says the women were consulting counsel about their choice. This contemporary report establishes the announced alternatives, rather than independently proving three days actually served. Its $25 figure is preserved as reported without replacing different fine amounts or actual custody recorded from other sources.
