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Jane Addams began her life as a small town girl in Cedarville, Illinois in 1860. Her family was rather wealthy, and she was raised an independent, freethinking young woman. For her secondary education, she attended the Rockford Female Seminary, where she met both Ellen Gates Starr and Julia C. Lathrop. After graduating in 1881, she toured Europe for the first time. In 1888, on her second tour of Europe, Ellen Gates Starr accompanied her, and it was on this trip that she got the idea for the settlement house. Shortly thereafter, the two moved to Chicago to find a house suitable for their dreams. Through her determination, Addams started the first social settlement in Chicago, a house that spurred a national movement of settlement houses. For her development of the field of social work, as well as her peace-related efforts in the twentieth century, Jane Addams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. She died of cancer at Hull-House in 1935 as one of the most famous women in Chicago’s history.
Source: Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912). 11.
World renowned social activist and Nobel Prize Winner
As the stone reads:
Jane Addams
Of Hull House and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom