Biography about jane addams
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Jane Addams: Early Life & Education
Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860 to Sarah Adams (Weber) and John Huy Adams.
Biography about jane addams
She was the eighth of nine children and was born with a spinal defect that hampered her early physical growth before it was rectified by surgery. Her father was a friend of Abraham Lincoln’s who served in the Civil War and remained active in politics, though he was a miller by trade.
Young Addams graduated as valedictorian of Rockford Female Seminary at age 17 in 1881.
(She formally received her Bachelor’s degree when the seminary became the Rockford College for Women the following year.) Her study of medicine was interrupted by ill health, and it wasn’t until a trip to Europe at age 27 with friend Ellen G.
Starr that she visited a settlement house and realized her life’s mission of creating a settlement home in Chicago.
Jane Addams and Hull House
In 1889, Addams and Starr leased the home of Charles Hull in Chicago.
The two moved in