Hamilton, Alice

  1. Hamilton, Alice
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Following is a chronology of AH's life and work. For further information, see Notable American Women: The Modern Period and AH's autobiography , Exploring the Dangerous Trades (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942). See also Hamilton family papers (MC 278), available on microfilm (M-24).

1869 1886 -born in New York city; raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana 1886 1888 -attends Miss Porter's School , Farmington, Connecticut 1893 -earns M.D. from University of Michigan ; interns at Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children , Minneapolis 1893 1894 -interns at New England Hospital for Women and Children , Boston 1895 -works in bacteriology laboratory, University of Michigan 1895 1897 -does postgraduate study in bacteriology and pathology in Germany 1897 Baltimore Baltimore Administration - University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore County Fire Department Station 10 Parkville New Baltimore Embassy Suites Hotel Baltimore at BWI Airport East Baltimore Church of Christ Baltimore City Fire Station 32 Engine 55 Baltimore City Fire Station 1 Engine 45 Village of Baltimore Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Covered Bridge Phillips Seafood - Baltimore WBSB-FM (Baltimore) Baltimore Maritime Museum Clifton-East End Station Baltimore Post Office New Baltimore Post Office WBAL-TV (Baltimore) Baltimore Park Baltimore Canyon Trail Baltimore City Fire Station 14 Engine 53 Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards Community College of Baltimore County Catonsville Baltimore Highlands North Baltimore Church of Christ -postgraduate study at Johns Hopkins Medical School , Baltimore -appointed professor of pathology at the Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University -becomes resident and active member of Hull House 1902 1910 Chicago Chicago Chicago Fire Department District 4 Station 32 La Quinta Inn Chicago O'Hare Airport Chicago Engine Company 125 Rio Chicansago Chicago Graphic Arts Institute East Chicago City Hall Chicago Weather Service Forecast Office Chicago Ridge School Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Ridge Chicago Milwaukee Saint Paul and Pacific Overpass Bridge Ramada Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel Cachica Chicago Fire Department District 6 Station 24 East Chicago Fire Station Number 2 Four Points Chicago Midway Chicago Chicago Engine Company 112 Chicago and Northwestern Station Chicago Fire Department District 4 Station 96 Skydive Chicago Airport WXRT-FM (Chicago) -works as bacteriologist at Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases , Chicago -investigates typhoid epidemic and drug traffic in Chicago 1903 -studies at Pasteur Institute , Paris 1907 -studies industrial diseases on her own 1908 -appointed to the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases 1910 -appointed supervisor of the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases, concentrating on lead poisoning 1911 1912 -appointed special investigator for U.S. Department of Labor ; investigates lead 1913 1919 -works for Bureau of Labor Statistics , U.S. Department of Labor; investigates rubber, munitions, other industries 1915 -delegate to first International Congress of Women (The Hague) -visits German-occupied Belgium -travels to war capitals and discusses Congress's peace proposal 1918 -appointed Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School (after 1928, Harvard School of Public Health), Harvard's first woman professor 1919 Zurich Zurich Lake Zurich Fire Rescue Department Station 3 Zurich Jamarta Zurich Villa Zurich Hotel Four Points by Sheraton Sihlcity - Zurich Zurich Cemetery Zurich Zurich Lake Zurich Shopping Center Zurich School Ema Housethe Zurich All Suite H Zurich Fire Department Lake Zurich Fire Rescue Department Station 2 Lake Zurich Highlands Lake Zurich High School Lake Zurich Heights Comfort Inn Royal Zurich Lake Zurich Golf Club Renaissance Zurich Hotel Zurich Park Hotel Kronenhof Zurich Swissotel International Zurich -attends second International Congress of Women ( Zurich ) Germany Federal Republic of Germany -visits Germany to investigate postwar famine 1923 1933 -consultant to General Electric 1924 -reviews industrial hygiene in U.S.S.R. 1924 1930 -serves two consecutive terms on Health Committee of League of Nations 1925 -publishes Industrial Poisons in the United States 1930 1932 -member, Herbert Hoover's President's Research Committee on Social Trends 1933 -travels in Nazi Germany 1934 -publishes Industrial Toxicology 1935 Hadlyme, Connecticut Hadlyme -retires from Harvard, moves to Hadlyme, Connecticut with sister Margaret and Clara Landsberg -consultant to Labor Department's Division of Labor Standards 1937 38 -conducts field study of conditions in viscose rayon industry for Division of Labor Standards 1943 -publishes autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades 1944 49 -president of National Consumers' League 1949 -publishes revised edition of Industrial Toxicology with Harriet Hardy 1970 -dies in Hadlyme at the age of 101

From the guide to the Papers, 1909-1965, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)

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