Lockrey, Sarah Hunt (1863–1929)

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Lockrey, Sarah Hunt (1863–1929)

American physician. Born Sarah Hunt Lockrey, April 21, 1863, in Philadelphia, PA; died Nov 8, 1929, in Philadelphia; dau. of Charles and Martha Jane (Wisner) Lockrey; graduate of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (later Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University School of Medicine, 1888).

Physician devoted to improving women's health care, 1st interned then served as Dr. Anna Broomall's assistant (from 1895) and was later named chief of gynecological staff at the hospital of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; specialized in abdominal surgery; was visiting chief at West Philadelphia Hospital for Women; appointed consultant to Elwyn School for the Feeble-Minded; served as a physician at Methodist Deaconess Home for more than 25 years; participated in a 26-women hunger strike and was given a jail sentence (1918) for participating in a Washington, DC, meeting at Lafayette Square.