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Tuesday 1 May 2012

Jane Addams



1.       Jane Addams  born in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S on september 6, 1860.
2.       Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of hull housein Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women suffrage and world peace.
3.       Jane Addams occupied as Social and political activist, author and lecturer, community organizer, public intellectual.
4.       She became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities.
5.        Jane Addams is increasingly recognized as a member of the american pragmatist school of philosophy.
6.       In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the nobel peace prize.
7.       Her  father  name is a  John H. Addams.
8.       Her mother name is a Sarah Weber.


9.       She is increasingly being known as a member of the american pragmatist school of philosophy.
10.   Jane Addams House is a residence hall construct in 1947,at connecticut college.
11.   Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities.
12.   She went to collage at the universty of Illoins. She went to the rockford university.
13.   She  also developed an interest in the sciences, even though such studies were not stressed at the school.
14.   After her graduation in 1881 she entered the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
15.   After  six months she was forced to end her studies to have a spinal operation. 
16.   Addams was never quite free of illness throughout her life.
17.   She decided "that it would be a good thing to rent a house in a part of the city where many … needs are found."
18.   She especially wanted to provide opportunities for well-educated young women to "learn of life from life itself."
19.   She  had 8 siblings: Mary Catherine, Georgiana, Martha, John, Sarah Alice, Horace, George, and a younger sister whose stillbirth precipitated her mother's death (Georgiana, Horace and George also died in early childhood).
20.   She  also had 4 step-brothers: Henry, George, John and William Haldeman (John and William also died in early childhood).
21.   She  did not have a husband. Her life partner was a woman by the name of  Mary Rozet Smith.
22.   She  died in Chicagov ,Illinois, U.S on May 21, 1935.
23.   She was buried in Cedarville, her childhood home town.



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