Mary Lockwood

"Mrs. Lockwood is a woman who has done as much as any other woman in this century to elevate her sex and to secure to herself an honorable place in the literary world. Mary Smith was born in Chautauqua, New York. She lost her mother when but four years old, and the tender love of her infancy was lavished on her brother, three years her senior. To him her last book, "The Historic Homes of Washington," is most touchingly dedicated.
She is physically slight, but strong and rather below the medium height. She has firmness, strength and executive ability of a high order. An interesting face with character written on the broad brow; and in the deep blue eyes of intellectual sweetness there is mingled a determination of purpose and firm resolve. Her hair, silvered and wavy, shades a face full of kindly interest in humanity. Her voice has a peculiar charm, low-keyed and musical, yet sympathetic and far-reaching. She is friendly to all progressive movements, especially so in the progress of women. Mrs. Lockwood was the founder of the celebrated "Travel Club," which met at her home ever since its formation, on Monday evenings for many long years.
In her house was also organized the association of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Lockwood was elected historian at the first meeting. She is the author of a text-book on ceramics, and of many bright articles on the tariff written for the best periodicals. She is also the author of "The Historical Homes of Washington." She has been president of the Woman's National Press Club and she held the position of Lady Manager at Large of the Columbian Exposition and was among the most efficient managers of the Woman's Board, throwing immense labor into the work of classification, and exercising serious responsibilities in the Committee on the Press.
We look at her with amazement and wonder, when we see this little woman doing so much and still holding all her faculties in calm, leisurely poise. She certainly demonstrates the possibility of combining business with literature, and both with an active sympathy in social reforms, and all with a womanly grace that beautifies every relation of life."
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Mary Smith Lockwood (1831–1922) was one of the founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Biography
On July 13, 1890, after the Sons of the American Revolution refused to allow women to join their group, Lockwood published the story of patriot Hannah White Arnett in The Washington Post, ending her piece with the question, "Where will the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution place Hannah Arnett?" On July 21 of that year, William O. McDowell, a great-grandson of Hannah White Arnett, published an article in The Washington Post offering to help form a society to be known as the Daughters of the American Revolution. The first meeting of the society was held August 9, 1890.
The Daughters of the American Revolution was officially founded on October 11, 1890, at 2 p.m. at the Strathmore Arms, the home of Lockwood, who was one of its four co-founders. Sons of the American Revolution members Registrar General Dr. George Brown Goode, Secretary General A. Howard Clark, William O. McDowell (SAR member #1), Wilson L. Gill (secretary at the inaugural meeting), and 18 other people met at the Strathmore Arms that day, but Lockwood, Eugenia Washington, Mary Desha, and Ellen Hardin Walworth are called co-founders since they held two to three meetings in August 1890.
Lockwood was also the Daughters of the American Revolution's first historian, and served as editor of the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine from 1894 to 1900.[1] The Daughters of the American Revolution was inspired by her to resolve on October 18, 1890, to "provide a place for the collection of Historical relics which will accumulate…and for historical portraits, pictures, etc. This may first be in rooms, and later in the erection of a fireproof building."
Lockwood was a friend and advisor to women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and wrote in newspapers about women's rights.
She wrote many books, the most notable being Historic Homes of Washington and Hand Book of Ceramic Art.
She also promoted women's clubs and was the founder of the Travel Club and president of the Woman's National Press Association, as well as Lady Manager at Large at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
The founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution honor Lockwood and the other co-founders of the DAR.
Lockwood died in 1922, and was the last surviving founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as the only founder buried in Washington.
Her work in founding the Daughters of the American Revolution is mentioned in Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (2005), by Francesca Morgan.
Legacy
On April 17, 1929, under the leadership of President General Grace L. H. Brosseau, the Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated a memorial to its four founders, including Lockwood.[6] The memorial was sculpted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is located at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
A memorial to Lockwood was dedicated in 1940 at the four corners in Smith Mills, New York, consisting of a large native boulder with a bronze tablet inset, stating, "Birthplace of Mary Smith Lockwood 1831-1922, Pen Founder of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Erected by Benjamin Prescott, Ellicott, Jamestown, Major Benjamin Bosworth and Patterson Chapters, 1940." (However, according to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lockwood was actually born in Hanover, New York.)
The Mary Smith Lockwood Founders Medal for Education is awarded by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Smith_Lockwood#Legacy]

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• Daughters of American Revolution
• Member: Mary Smith Lockwood
• Nat'l #: 27
• Chapter: 2046DC
• Ancestor: BLODGETT, EPHRAIM (A011362)
• Ancestor: MORTON, DANIEL (A081738)
• Ancestor: MOSES, DANIEL (A082060)
• Ancestor: ROBERTS, MARTIN (A096992)
• Ancestor: SMITH, BENJAMIN (A104739)
• Ancestor: WAIT, JOHN (A120287)
• Ancestor: MORTON, SILAS (A081897) - Not completed (WHY?)
• Ancestor: SMITH, ELISHA (A105231)

Mary Lockwood was born in Hanover, Chautauqua County, New York on October 24, 1831. She moved to Washington, DC in about 1878. Mrs. Lockwood’s residence was Washington’s elegant and imposing Strathmore Arms and it was there on October 11, 1890 the formal organization of the NSDAR took place.

Mrs. Lockwood was the NSDAR’s first historian and the Society, inspired by Mrs. Lockwood’s commitment to historic preservation, resolved on October 18, 1890 to “provide a place for the collection of Historical relics which will accumulate…and for historical portraits, pictures, etc. This may first be in rooms, and later in the erection of a fire-proof building.” She held many other national offices as well and served as editor of the DAR Magazine from 1894 to 1900.

Mrs. Lockwood was also a prolific author and wrote many noteworthy books. Her last book, The Historic Homes of Washington, was dedicated to her older brother to whom she became close after her mother’s death when Mrs. Lockwood was only four years old. She was an avid promoter of the work of women’s clubs and was both the founder of the famous Travel Club and for a time president of the Women’s Press Club. She also held the position of Lady Manager at Large at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

An acquaintance noted that “she is friendly to all progressive movements, especially so in the progress of women.” Mary Lockwood died in Plymouth, Massachusetts on November 9, 1922 and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, DC. She is not only the last surviving Founder but also the only Founder buried in Washington.