While in Europe, Jane Addams and Ellen Starr visited the university settlement of Toynbee Hall which had inspired them to start a similar project in Chicago. Helen Culver agreed to rent them Hull House for $60 a month. Most of the people living in the area were recently arrived immigrants from Europ...

Jane Addams Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Ceadarville, Illinois. She entered the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia after receiving her A.B. degree from Rockford College in 1882. Addams is remembered as a feminist icon, a social activist, and a reformer. She is one of man...

JANE ADDAMS Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. She grew up in Cedarville, but later moved to Chicago where she died on May 21, 1935 of cancer. Being a woman, she made up about fifty percent of the population. Addams was very well known. Addams was quoted by Presid...

Conway, Jill Ker: Jane Addams Written By Herself: Vintage Books:1992:672 Growing up without a mother and having a very prosperous father is quite a combination. Jane Addams had to deal with that, served her life and made the best of it. Addams did what she loved. Starting and having very muc...

Conway, Jill Ker: Jane Addams Written By Herself: Vintage Books:1992:672 Growing up without a mother and having a very prosperous father is quite a combination. Jane Addams had to deal with that, served her life and made the best of it. Addams did what she loved. Starting and having very muc...

From the rise of the twentieth century until 1920, the Progressive Era took shape. The economy became dominated by corporate giants just as workers began to unionize. This reform movement known as progressivism arose in response to problems caused by industrialization. The Progressive Era shone a...

Jane Addams · Journeyed to Europe and the sight of large numbers of poor people in London's East End made a lasting impression on her. When she returned, she searched for a new way to be useful. · Hull House, Chicago 1889 · Social Settlement houses to help immigrants wi...

During the 1871-1929 time period Chicago was a town in which both criminal and social workers operated. For various reasons both of these groups found a way to operate in the same city. Sometimes because they wanted to co-exist in the same place and sometimes they had to. A large amount of C...

Jane Addams Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860,and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abr...

Jane Addams Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860,and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was...

Laura Jane Addams was born September 06, 1860 in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois. Jane, or "Jennie" as she was called during her childhood, was the eighth child of John Huy and Sarah Addams. Shortly after giving birth to her ninth child, which died during it's birth, Sarah Addams passed aw...

Little Biography Ida Tarbell: She was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania. She was born in1857-1944.She was an American writer, leader of the muckraking movement in journalism. Tarbell was an associate editor (1894-1906) of McClure's magazine (1906-1915) and editor of the American Magazine....

President? The great country of America has fought very long and hard for the freedom that each citizen has today. With that freedom we have attained many amenities like the right to vote. If Jane Adams and Edith Kohl were running for president, they would have to show the country how their ...