 AKA Laura Jane Addams
Born:6-Sep-1860
Birthplace:Cedarville, IL
Died:21-May-1935
Location of death:Chicago, IL
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Cedarville Cemetery, Cedarville, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation:Lesbian
Occupation:Activist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Founder of Hull House Father: John Huy Addams (miller, state senator, d. 1881)
Mother: Sarah Weber (d., at age 2)
Girlfriend: Ellen Gates Starr
Girlfriend: Mary Rozet Smith
University:AB, Rockford College (1881)
Medical School: Women's Medical College, Philadelphia (dropped out)
Nobel Peace Prize 1931 (with Nicholas Murray Butler)
National Women's Hall of Fame 1973
Daughters of the American Revolution Expelled
Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom President (1915)
English Ancestry
German Ancestry
Risk Factors:Sciatica
Is the subject of books:
American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams,1973, Allen F. Davis
Author of books:
Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)
The Spirit of Youth and City Streets (1909)
Twenty Years at Hull House (1910, memoir)
Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922)
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