Jane addams biography
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Jane Addams: Early Life & Education
Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, to Sarah Adams (Weber) and John Huy Adams. She was the eighth of nine children and was born with a spinal defect that hampered her early physical growth before it was rectified by surgery. Her father was a friend of Abraham Lincoln’s who served in the Civil War and remained active in politics, though he was a miller by trade.
Young Addams graduated as valedictorian of Rockford Female Seminary at age 17 in (She formally received her Bachelor’s grad when the seminary became the Rockford College for Women the following year.) Her study of medicin was interrupted by ill health, and it wasn’t until a trip to Europe at age 27 with friend Ellen G. Starr that she visited a settlement house and realized her life’s uppdrag of creating a settlement home in Chicago.
Jane Addams and Hull House
In , Addams and Starr leased the home of Charles Hull in Chicago. The two moved in and began thei
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Jane Addams: A Hero for Our Time
In , Jane Addams, an idealistic college graduate, rented a run-down mansion on a derelict strip of Halsted Street in Chicago’s Nineteenth Ward. The neighborhood was home to thousands of recently arrived immigrants—Italians, Greeks, Russian Jews, Bohemians, and Irish. Addams, like many young people, was searching for purpose and meaning. Her plan was to use the mansion to improve the lives of the urban poor. Named Hull-House after its original owner, Charles Hull, it would become known as America’s first settlement house.
The settlement started with a kindergarten, then added a day-care center, then an art studio. The early residents, who lived in the house to help the community, held reading groups and sewing classes. They also delivered babies, nursed the sick, prepared the dead for burial, and, from time to time, sheltered young women from abuse.
Over the next few years, Hull-House expanded to 13 buildings and became the home of many
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Jane Addams
American activist, sociologist and writer (–)
For other people with similar names, see Jane Adams.
Laura Jane Addams[1] (September 6, &#;&#; May 21, ) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker,[2][3]sociologist,[4]public administrator,[5][6] philosopher,[7][8] and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and Women's suffrage.[9] In , Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Philosophically a "radical pragmatist", she was arguably the first woman public philosopher in the United States.[10] In the Progressive Era, when even presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and might be seen as social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers.