Jane Addams
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Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's s
Addams c. 1926
Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago
Jane Addams, 1915
A 1912 sketch of Addams with Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, both members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Addams was a vice president of the organization.
Ellen Gates Starr
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Ellen Gates Starr was an American social reformer and activist. With Jane Addams, she founded Chicago's Hull House, an adult education center, in 1889; the settlement house expanded to 13 buildings in
Jane Addams
…and feeling useless leading the conventional life expected of a well-to-do young woman. She wrote long letters to her friend from Rockford Seminary, Ellen Gates Starr, mostly about Christianity and books but sometimes about her despair. Her nephew was James Weber Linn (1876–1939) who taught English at the University…
Starr in 1914