Lola Maverick Lloyd was an American pacifist, suffragist, world federalist and feminist. Born in Texas to the wealthy Maverick family, Lola Maverick married William Bross Lloyd, the son of muckraking
Lloyd in 1915
William Bross and Lola Maverick Lloyd lived at The Wayside following the death of Henry Demarest Lloyd.
Lola Maverick Lloyd owned this house in Winnetka from its construction in 1920 until her death, although she spent much time abroad.
Peace Ship was the common name for the ocean liner Oscar II, on which American industrialist Henry Ford organized and launched his 1915 amateur peace mission to Europe; Ford chartered the Oscar II and
Lola Maverick Lloyd
…other women that April for the International Congress of Women at The Hague. After the congress, she returned to Chicago to help organize Henry Ford's Peace Ship, an unsuccessful effort to force a peace conference to mediate an end to the war. She was a member of the "Committee of Seven" overseeing the resulting…
Oscar II Peace Ship leaving New York Dec. 4, 1915
Oscar II Peace Ship with Capt. G. W. Hempel and Henry Ford
The Tug of Peace by Leonard Raven-Hill, Punch 15 Dec. 1915