About Sarah Hunt Lockrey
Lived 1863 – 1929 (aged 66). Sarah Hunt Lockrey was an American suffragist.
Dr. Sarah Hunt Lockrey (1863–1929) was an American physician and suffragist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Early life and education Lockrey was born on April 21, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After interning with Dr. Anna Broomall at WMCP, Lockrey went on to become chief of the gynecological staff there.
Career Lockrey worked at the West Philadelphia Hospital for Women and the Elwyn School for the Feeble-Minded. She was a physician at Methodist Deaconess Home for more than two decades.
Lockrey was a member of the National Woman's Party (NWP), and served on the NWP's National Advisory Council. Rather than serve her sentence, Dr. Lockrey paid a fine so that she could return to Philadelphia to perform surgery. In 1920, Lockry received the NWP's "prison pin."
Lockrey died in Philadelphia on November 8, 1929.
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American physician and suffragist
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Sarah Hunt Lockrey was born on 21 April 1863 in Philadelphia.
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Sarah Hunt Lockrey died on 8 November 1929 in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Sarah Hunt Lockrey was a suffragist.
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