About
Co-founder, with Jane Addams, of the Hull House in Chicago, a center for infancy care and continuing education for adults.
Before Fame
She met Addams at the Rockford Female Seminary, a liberal arts institution in Illinois, with the two finding they had similar convictions.
Trivia
After the founding of Hull House, she campaigned for the reform of child labor laws and the improvement of working conditions for blue-collar laborers in Chicago.
Family Life
She was born in near Laona, Illinois.
Associated With
Believing that practicing arts was the best way to stave off monotony, she taught community members of her Hull House the works of poets like William Shakespeare.
