Bosworth, Louise Marion, 1881-1982
Louise Marion Bosworth was born on July 11, 1881, one of five children of Alfred Bosworth and Eleanora (Wheeler) Bosworth. She grew up in Elgin, Ill., where her father was president of the First National Bank. After attending Elgin Academy, she studied at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Mass., (1900-1901), and at Mountain Seminary in Birmingham, Pa., (1901-1902). In 1902 Bosworth entered Wellesley College; she became president of the Philosophy Club, a house president, and manager of the senior play, and was graduated in 1907.
As the Women's Educational and Industrial Union Fellow (1907-1909), Bosworth participated in the WEIU's survey of incomes and expenditures of women workers. She published the results of this investigation, including detailed analyses of the finances of 450 wage earners in the city of Boston, as The Living Wage of Women Workers, a supplement to the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Philadelphia, 1911; see 331.2/074 in the Schlesinger Library book division). During this period Bosworth sought to live on her salary of $9.61 a week, was active on a number of WEIU committees, and took courses at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Radcliffe College, where she studied economics.
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