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Jane Addams 1860 - 1935 was a social reformer who contributed to new ideas of childhood. Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children. Her father 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 Abraham Lincoln ….

Because of a congenital spinal defect, Jane was not physically vigorous when young nor truly robust even later in life, but her spinal difficulty was remedied by surgery…

Addams wanted to study medicine at the homeopathic Philadelphia Medical School (the only establishment who would admit women):

Jane went to Philadelphia to go to medical school and because she worked so hard she became ill and a pain in her back, from her childhood returned. Jane ended up having to stay in bed, strapped to a board, for six months so her back could heal. After Jane recovered from her illness, she still had to wear a tight brace to stop the strain on her back. This brace helped Jane so she wasn’t in pain all the time.

Her doctor thought a trip to Europe would help her recover, therefore in August 1882, Jane went to Europe for a vacation…. In Europe Jane visited many places, including Ireland, Scotland, and different cities in England. Jane enjoyed London and particularly enjoyed a wax museum called Madame Tussaud’s waxworks.

One Saturday evening in London Jane and her friends were in a poor part of town, and someone told them they would see the late Saturday evening food sale if they stayed. It was a law that food couldn’t be sold on Sunday, so Saturday evening the peddlers would auction off the fruits and vegetables that were left over. It was there that Jane saw a sight she would never forget.

The poor swarmed around the peddlers offering every penny they had for the left over food. The peddlers were selling food that was moldy, bruised, and dirty, but the people didn’t care, many of them sat right there and ate it anyway. Jane wondered if there was anyone around to help these people.

While in Europe Jane studied the German, Italian, and French languages…. she saw women carrying large beer canisters on their backs across snowy walkways. The beer was steamy hot and would splash onto the women’s faces and hands. Many of the women had scars on them from the burns. Jane could hardly contain herself and ran to the brewery and yelled at the owner. The owner didn’t care, and told Jane to mind her own business.

After several years in Europe, Germany and Spain, Jane decided it was time to do the dream of her childhood. She would return to Chicago and open a large home in an impoverished part of town. At last, her dream would become a reality. continue reading:

Addams founded Hull House in 1889 (now a part of the University of Illinois at Chicago) and devoted her life to the lower classes and to the cause of active local government.

Addams was well to do and well connected and her close friends included Alice Hamilton (who graduated from the Homeopathic University of Michigan after president James B Angell established a separate School of Homeopathy there in 1891), Emily Greeb Balch (who also received the Nobel Peace Prize), Aletta Jacobs, Louise De Koven Bowen, Ellen G. Starr and Julia Lathrop, homeopath Cornelia de Bey, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Florence Kelley, Mary McDowell, Alzina Stevens and Sophonisba Breckinridge..

Jane Addams founded the International Women’s League of Peace and Freedom in 1915, along with Charlotte Despard and Helena Swanwick.

Florence Kelley and Jane Addams became fast friends:

Jane Addams supplied Kelley with room, board, and employment and soon after she arrived introduced her to Henry Demarest Lloyd, a leading critic of American labor policies who lived with his wife Jessie and their young children in nearby Winnetka.

The Lloyds readily agreed to add Kelley’s children to their large nursery, an arrangement that began a lifelong relationship between the two families. A sign of the extent to which responsibility for Kelley’s children was later assumed by members of the Hull House community, even after her departure, was the fact that Jane Addams’s closest personal friend Mary Rozet Smith, regularly and quietly helped Kelley pay for their school and college tuition…

Kelley’s letters to Jane Addams often began “Beloved Lady,” and she frequently addressed Mary Rozet Smith as “Dearly Beloved,” referring perhaps to Smith’s special status in Addams’s life…

One source of the basic trust established among the three major reformers at Hull House in the 1890s Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, and Florence Kelley was similarly of family background. Not only were they all of the upper middle class, but their fathers were politically active men who helped Abraham Lincoln found and develop the Republican Party in the 186os.

John Addams served eight terms as a state senator in Illinois… Since Hull House drew on local sources of funding, often family funds supplied by
wealthy women, Jane Addams found it possible to finance the settlement’s activities without the assistance or control of established religious or educational institutions…

The close relationship between Hull House and other groups of women in Chicago was exemplified in Kelley’s interaction with the Chicago Women’s Club (president homeopath Julia Holmes Abbott Smith). The minutes of the club’s first meeting after Kelley’s arrived in Chicago show that on January 25, 1892, she spoke under the sponsorship of Jane Addams on the sweating system and urged that a committee be created on the problem…

In 1893 Jane Addams successfully solicited the support of wealthy club-women to lobby for the antisweatshop legislation… Jane Addams described the protection that the settlement gave to the first factory inspection office in Illinois, the only such office headed by a woman in her lifetime:

“The inception of the law had already become associated with Hull House, and when its ministration was also centered there, we inevitably received all the odium which these first efforts entailed…

Jane Addams also tried to help those who were deprived of work by the new law:

“The sense that the passage of the child labor law would in many cases work hardship, was never absent from my mind during the earliest years of its operation. I addressed as many mothers’ meetings and clubs among working women as I could, in order to make clear the objective of the law and the ultimate benefit to themselves as well as to their children.”

Settlement houses were established, such as the one begun by Jane Addams in the inner city of Chicago, to provide food, clothing, education, and a sense of community to new immigrants….

Jane Addams, at first served as volunteers and reformers to provide services to those who needed them….

Well-known social reformers such as Lillian Wald and Jane Addams developed the settlement idea to house activities on behalf of the needy in a new institutional milieu…. Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, and Lillian Wald helped make President Theodore Roosevelt and other high government officials aware of the need for research on the conditions of child life in the United States.

Jane Addams and the residents of Hull House added their voices
to the demand for public baths… Jane Addams, head of Hull House, insisted on including a small swimming pool (20 by 30 feet) in place of more than half the showers. Apparently the swimming pool was intended to attract patrons to the bath, especially children….

Addams wrote Twenty Years at Hull-House, The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House, Forty Years at Hull-House, Democracy and Social Ethics, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, The Excellent Becomes the Permanent, Peace and Bread in Time of War, Newer Ideals of Peace: The Moral Substitutes for War, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, The Long Road of Woman’s Memory, Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results, Philanthropy and Social Progress: Seven Essays, The Social Thought of Jane Addams, What I Owe to My Father, The Overthrow of the War System, The Child, the Clinic and the Court and many others.