Jane Addams

Jane Addams

female, deceased (1935)
Child labor in the United States, gym, Rockford College, Gymnasium, East End of London, Nobel Peace Prize laureate…Settlement House, hullhouse
Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935) won the Nobel Peace Prize and was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement. Born in...
Ellen Gates Starr

Ellen Gates Starr

female, deceased (1940)
from Winnebago County, Illinois, child labor, American, Community organizer, Sociologist, hullhouse
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) US social reformer and activist. Starr was born in Laona, Illinois and was a student at the Rockford Female Seminary...
Julia Lathrop

Julia Lathrop

female, deceased (1932)
Alice Hamilton, Rockford Female Seminary, Mary McDowell, William Lathrop, Vassar College alumni, william taft…hullhouse
Julia Lathrop (June 29, 1858 - April 15, 1932), was an American social reformer. The daughter of William Lathrop, she was born in Rockford,...
Alice Hamilton

Alice Hamilton

female, deceased (1970)
University of Michigan, toxicology, occupational health, Doctor of Medicine, hullhouse, pathology
Alice Hamilton (February 27,1869 - September 22,1970) was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School and was a leading...
Edith Abbott

Edith Abbott

female, deceased (1957)
Brownell Hall, Brownell-Talbot School, American, American social worker, writer, Delta Gamma sister…hullhouse
Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 - July 28, 1957) was a social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her younger...
Grace Abbott

Grace Abbott

female, deceased (1939)
Child labor in the United States, hullhouse, feminism, from Nebraska, University of Chicago alumni, American social worker
Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare. Her older sister...
Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins

female, deceased (1965)
Frances Coralie Perkins, Mount Holyoke College alumni, New Deal Coalition, Labor unions in the United States, labor movement, from Worcester, Massachusetts…hullhouse
Frances Coralie Perkins (born Fanny Coralie Perkins, lived April 10 1882 - May 14 1965) was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1947, and the...
Sophonisba Breckinridge

Sophonisba Breckinridge

female, deceased (1948)
University of Chicago, Wellesley College, death from cardiovascular disease, suffragist, activist, American…hullhouse, Breckinridge House
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (April 1 1866 - July 30 1948), American activist. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, she was the daughter of William...

Helen Culver

female, deceased (1925)
University of Chicago, philanthropist, American, hullhouse, William I. Thomas, Real estate and property developer
Born in 1832, Helen Culver was a successful real estate developer and philanthropist. She owned Hull House and rented it to Jane Addams, before...
Alzina Stevens

Alzina Stevens

female, deceased (1900)
knight of labor, hullhouse, Illinois Association of Manufacturer, Cook County Juvenile Court
Alzina Stevens (Maine 1849 - Chicago 1900) was a trade unionist and active in Hull House. By thirteen, she worked in a local textile company where...