Famous Woman of History. Jane Addams, social reformer and head worker of Hull House, Chicago was born at Cedarville, Illinois in 1860. In 1881 she graduated from Rockford College. She spent two years from 1883 to 1885 in Europe and in 1899 together with Miss Ellen Gates Starr opened the social settlement of Hull House. By her practical methods notable executive gifts and admirable humanitarian spirit, she became one of the foremost leaders of social settlement work in America. In 1919 she was elected president of the international congress of woman at Washington and attended the peace convention at Zurich in that year and in Vienna in 1921

Underwood & Underwood · [ca. July 1934]

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