1860–1935, American social worker, b. Cedarville, Ill., grad. Rockford College, 1881. In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, she founded the Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in the United States. Based on the university settlements, Hull House served as a community center for the neighborhood poor and later as a center [...]
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