Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974

Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Hamilton, Alice

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w606870t (person)

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 ...

Hardy, Harriet Louise, 1906-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r8967f (person)

See finding aid for Harriet Louise Hardy Papers, MC 387. From the guide to the Papers, 1935-1994, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) Physician and specialist in occupational medicine, Harriet Louise Hardy was born on September 23, 1906, in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her father, Horace Dexter Hardy, a lawyer, died of pneumonia when HLH was four. Her mother, Harriet Louise (Decker) Hardy, married engineer Charles Maxwell Sears in 1912. HLH grad...

Ribicoff, Abraham A. (Abraham Alexander), 1910-1998

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dk66bn (person)

Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and was the 80th Governor of Connecticut and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in President John F. Kennedy's cabinet. He was Connecticut's first and to date only Jewish governor. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Poland, Samuel ...

Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tn82s0 (corporateBody)

Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of the city, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club. With its innovative social, educat...

Hamilton (Family : Ft. Wayne, Ind.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62w36rw (family)

Allen Hamilton (1798-1864) came to America from Northern Ireland when he was eighteen years old (probably in 1818) and settled in the area that became Fort Wayne, Indiana. He traded with Native Americans, opened a dry goods store, and eventually became a banker. In 1828 he married Emerine Jane Holman (1810-1889), the daughter of Jesse Lynch Holman and Elizabeth (Masterson) Holman. They had 10 children: Eliza Hamilton (1832-1835), Andrew Holman Hamilton (1834-1895), Bessie Allen Hamilton (1836-18...

Johnson, Ethel McLean, 1882-1978

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d03zp7 (person)

Ethel McLean Johnson was born in Brownfield, Maine. She graduated from Gorham State Normal School, studied library science at Simmons College, earned her B.A. at Boston University, and did graduate work at the American University in Washington, D.C. She gained recognition as an author of monographs, essays, dramas, and articles besides being an outstanding poet. She also published a book of political doggerel. She held many important government positions and served on boards, committees, and com...

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66r2nrr (person)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary taste...

Scattergood, Alfred Garrett, 1878-1954.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc4x2b (person)

Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb9wdg (person)

Florence Kelley (A.B., Cornell, 1882) was born in Philadelphia. In 1884 she married Lazare Wischnewetzky; they had three children. In 1891 Kelley divorced him, reclaimed her maiden name, and became a resident of Chicago's Hull-House. In 1892 the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics hired her to investigate the "sweating" system in the garment industry and the federal commissioner of labor asked her to participate in a survey of city slums. Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld later...

McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66j56w7 (person)

Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch (June 4, 1862 – April 20, 1945) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and reformer. She actively lobbied for women's suffrage at the local, state, and national levels as a leader in the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Chicago Political Equality League, and National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was the first woman elected Justice of the Peace in Illinois. Born in 1862 in Ransomville, New York as Catherine Gouger Waugh, she entered Rockford Colleg...

Codman, Katherine Putnam Bowditch.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66x1g8r (person)

Born into a prominent Boston family, Codman married Amory Codman and supported such unpopular causes as birth control and Sacco and Vanzetti. Dr. Alice Hamilton lived with the Codmans while she taught at Harvard Medical School (1919-1935). From the description of Papers, 1880-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122407265 ...

Shurcliff, Margaret H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tt7kgh (person)

Hamilton, Jessie, 1866-1960.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn41sn (person)

Harvard Medical School.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6100tfw (corporateBody)

Reid, Doris F.R.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kd46bq (person)

Shearman, Margaret Hilles.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6df9m0w (person)

Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd88hs (person)

Louise deKoven Bowen (1859-1953) was a Chicago philanthopist, social reformer and benefactor of Hull-House. She was the director of the Woman's Club of Chicago and served as Hull-House Treasurer and president of the Board of Directors. She also served as the first president of the Juvenile Protective Association where she supervised research examining such issues as working conditions, racial prejudice, prostitution and popular entertainment and their effects on young people. In 1912, she donate...

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d83477 (corporateBody)

WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...

Hamilton, Arthur, 1886-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zc8fd3 (person)

Chittenden, Alice Hill

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pg4mhj (person)

Norment, Caroline G.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68s7jz2 (person)

Sarton, George, 1884-1956

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf0rjx (person)

Historian of science, George Alfred Leon Sarton was born on August 31, 1884, in Ghent, Belgium. He studied the natural sciences at the University of Ghent, and received his D.Sc. in 1911. Escaping to England before World War I, Sarton then came to the United States in 1915. After spending some time in lecturing positions, Sarton came to Harvard University in 1920, was made a full professor there in 1940 and retired in 1951 when he was made professor emeritus. He was founder of th...

Hamilton, Gertrude Pond, 1840-1917.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk72s5 (person)

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w37tk4 (person)

Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...

Goldmark, Josephine, 1877-1950

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ns18vj (person)

Josephine Clara Goldmark and Pauline Dorothea Goldmark (1874-1962) were born in Brooklyn, N.Y., two of the eleven children of Regina Wehle and Joseph Goldmark, political refugees from the Revolution of 1848 in Austria. Both sisters graduated from Bryn Mawr, were associated with the National and New York Consumers' Leagues, investigated industrial working conditions particularly for women workers, and were published authors. J. Goldmark researched labor laws on hours of work for her brother-in-la...

Stone, Edwin M.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t2zmc (person)

Linn, James Weber, 1876-1939

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f24v5 (person)

Overstreet, H. A. (Harry Allen), 1875-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k2qgd (person)

Philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet, 1875-1970, was born in San Francisco, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his B.A. degree in 1899 and B.S. degree in 1901. He began his career as an educator and instructor in philosophy at Berkeley in 1901. He left Berkeley in 1911 to become chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at the City College of New York, a position he held until his retirement in 1939. He also taught in the continuing education prog...

Hamilton, Norah, 1873-1945.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n96x6z (person)

Norah Hamilton, artist, was born in Ft. Wayne, Ind., the sister of physician and social reformer Alice Hamilton and writer and educator Edith Hamilton. After studying at the Art Students' League in New York, she spent two years in Europe, studying with James McNeill Whistler and others. She suffered a breakdown while in her twenties and was thereafter periodically incapacitated. She continued to work as an artist, however, illustrating several of Jane Addams's books and her sister Alice's autobi...

Bradford, Esther Kelly, 1866-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67w9725 (person)

Trevett, Emily Bancroft.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vm7744 (person)

Detzer, Laura Goshorn.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6df8bdk (person)

Trowbridge, Edith C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62z42f8 (person)

Wagenhals family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vv0x45 (family)

Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m0476h (person)

Hocking graduated in 1901 and taught philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Philosophy D : technique of thought and of argument. [1942-1943] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512457 From the description of Papers of William Ernest Hocking, 1927-1949 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973067 Hocking was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. Together with his wife, Agnes Hocking, they founded the Shady Hill School. ...

Hamilton, Taber, 1876-1942.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r519cd (person)

Williams family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sk0qjp (family)

Lory family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv6ts3 (family)

Hamilton, Margaret Vance, 1854-1931.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pk21tt (person)

Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60v8vb9 (person)

Agnes Irwin was dean of Radcliffe College from 1894-1909. From the description of Letters, 1875, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007310 Agnes Irwin, school and college administrator, descendent of Benjamin Franklin, was born and educated in Washington, D.C. After teaching in New York, she became principal of the Penn Square Seminary, later the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia (1869-1894). Appointed Dean of Radcliffe College in 1894, she maintained excelle...

Duryee, Lily N.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr4t4g (person)

Williams, Jeannette C. Hunt.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cg2kbb (person)

Baldwin, Alice Maude.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nc8wnt (person)

Williams, Mary Hamilton, 1845-1922.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bs0bx3 (person)

Landsberg, Clara, 1873-1966.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6186200 (person)

Hodge, Margaret E.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zd0x52 (person)

Boynton, Frances Howland Cogswell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d24s7d (person)

Miss Porter's School (Farmington, Conn.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x67fp8 (corporateBody)

Duryee, Susan Rankin.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rf8pdt (person)

Hamilton, Mary Neal, d. 1965.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj4gd5 (person)

Bowen, Hildegarde Wagenhals, 1894-1979.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wt0cz8 (person)

Hamilton, Agnes, 1868-1961.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz1v4q (person)

Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d81j3n (person)

Mary Rozet Smith (1868-1933) was a philanthropist and companion to Jane Addams. She was from a wealthy Chicago family, the daughter of a successful manufacturer and a Philadelphia philanthropist. Mary Rozet Smith first came to Hull-House in 1890 as a volunteer leading a variety of children's clubs. She became an important benefactor of the settlement house and used her connections in Chicago society to secure gifts for Hull-House. Mary Rozet Smith was also Jane Addams' companion, with her house ...

Williams, Allen Hamilton, 1868-1960.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g54wv (person)

Hamilton, Katherine, 1862-1932.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zg8cbd (person)

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cd1psb (person)

Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

Parson, Charlotte.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x37smg (person)

Pope, Theodate, d.1946.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mk98j5 (person)

Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6br8vbc (person)

Classicist (Bryn Mawr College, A.B. and A.M., 1894), Hamilton was headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore (1896-1922), and an author and translator of numerous books, including The Greek Way (1930) and The Roman Way (1932). From the description of Papers, 1922-1961 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122565735 ...

Kennan, George, 1845-1924

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rv0mwc (person)

Noted traveler, lecturer, and investigative reporter. Born in Norwalk, Ohio on 16 Feb. 1845; died at Medina, N.Y. on 10 May 1924. From the description of John Henderson, artist : a psychological study, [between 1900 and 1920]. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 74336703 American journalist. From the description of George Kennan letters, 1888-1892 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812360 From the description of Auto...

Williams, Creighton Hamilton, 1874-1958.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sr0kdz (person)

Clarke, Elizabeth W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68h060z (person)

Fahmy, Alice Duryee.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6836nt7 (person)

Windom, Florence B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6710wv9 (person)

Lighthouse (Philadelphia, Pa.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cz9797 (corporateBody)

Tabor family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w189wn (family)

National League of Women Workers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64v1vmg (corporateBody)

Burlingham, Charles C. (Charles Culp), 1858-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h7128p (person)

Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Culp Burlingham : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724026 Attorney, civic leader, reformer. A.B., Harvard, 1879; LL. B., Columbia, 1881; LL. D., Williams, 1931; Columbia, 1933; Harvard, 1934. Attorney and partner, Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, N.Y.C., firm specializing in admiralty law. Board member and pres., N.Y. (City) Board of Educ., Welfare Council of N....

Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974

Related Entities

Social Networks and Archival Context

Sponsors

Hosts