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                    <persName>Edith Abbott</persName>
                    <note>Edith Abbott was born on September 26, 1876 in Grand Island, Nebraska, into a politically and socially active Nebraskan family. After receiving a degree at the University of Nebraska, Edith attended the University of Chicago on a fellowship to study political economy. In 1905, she obtained her doctoral degree and spent multiple years at the University College London studying social economics and welfare. She returned to the United States to continue a successful career of teaching and researching social welfare alongside Grace Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and other women at Jane Addams’ Hull House. Abbott’s work focused on social statistics as a methodology to look critically at women’s rights, child labor, immigration, and public welfare. She was promoted to Dean of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration in 1924, and held that position until retiring in 1942. </note>
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                    <persName>Grace Abbott</persName>
                    <note>Grace Abbott, sister of Edith Abbott, was born to an influential family in Grand Island, Nebraska on November 17, 1878. After several years of teaching high school in Grand Island and receiving a degree at the University of Nebraska, Grace moved to Chicago to join her sister at Jane Addams’ Hull House. She became increasingly involved in social reform regarding immigrant rights, child labor laws, and women’s rights. In 1917, Abbott moved to Washington D.C. where she quickly became the director of the Child Labor Division of the Children’s Bureau in 1917. She led the Bureau until her health began to fail and she returned to Chicago to live with Edith in 1934. Though undergoing continued poor health, Grace continued her involvement in the Social Security Administration until her death in 1939.</note>
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                    <persName>John Commons</persName>
                    <note>Born on October 13, 1862 in Hollansburg, Ohio, John Rogers Commons is best known as the first economist committed to advocating the U.S. labor through the research, movement, and legislative activity. After graduating Oberlin College in 1888, he continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University for two years. In 1895, Commons began teaching at Syracuse University from which he was fired four years later as he was considered radical by the school. In 1904, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Wisconsin to teach labor economics until his retirement in 1933. He made many contributions to Wisconsin as well as the federal government, notably in the outline of legislation in Wisconsin for labor unions, unemployment insurance, minimum wage and in the design of the Social Security Act of 1935. His acclaimed publications include Documentary History of American Industrial Society and History of Labor in the United States. Commons died on May 11, 1945. </note>
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                    <persName>Ella Stewart</persName>
                    <note>Miss Stewart likely refers to  Ella Jane (Seass) Stewart. Ella Stewart was a prominent lecturer and suffragist born in 1890 in Arthur, Illinois. During her career she held office in several suffrage associations as vice president and later president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association from 1902-1911 and as secretary of the Nation American Woman Suffrage Association from 1908-1911. She was also active in local organizations such as the Chicago Woman's Club, the American Association of University Women, and the Woman's City Club. Stewart was the vice chair of the Department of Social and Industrial Conditions, was a trustee of Eureka College, and directed the Association of Chicago Bank Women. </note>
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                    <persName>Jane Addams</persName>
                    <note>Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois in a wealthy family. She received the bachelor's degree from Rockford College for Women in 1882. She studied medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, but completed only one year due to her poor health. Inspired from her visit to Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in London, she co-founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 to help immigrants in Chicago. Addams was actively engaged in woman suffrage and international peace movement serving as an officer in the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and leading organizations such as Women's Peace Party, the International Congress of Women and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 71. Addams died of cancer in 1935. </note>
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                    <persName>Mary McDowell</persName>
                    <note>Mary McDowell, born on November 20, 1854, was involved in relief and aid in Chicago for the entirety of her career, beginning with the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. After teaching kindergarten at Hull House under the supervision of Jane Addams, McDowell opened the Chicago Settlement House in 1894 where she improved living conditions and educational opportunities for immigrant families. She later became interested in waste disposal programs, earning the nickname “The Garbage Lady.” After a successful career, McDowell retired at 75 and later died in 1936.</note>
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                    <persName>Sophonisba Breckinridge</persName>
                    <note>Shophonisba Breckinridge was born on April 1, 1866 in Lexington Kentucky to a prominent family. After passing the Kentucky bar exam, Breckinridge moved to Chicago to earn her Ph.D. in political science and economics. She then became an instructor and researcher of social reform and immigrant rights at the University of Chicago before becoming involved at Jane Addams’ Hull House where she met and began a collaborative relationship with Edith Abbott. Together, Abbott and Breckinridge established the Wendell Phillips Settlement House as well as the Social Service Review scholarly journal. Throughout her career, Breckinridge devoted her time to improving labor conditions, immigrant rights, women’s suffrage, and creating child labor laws before passing away at the age of 82. </note>
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                    <persName>Lucius Carter Lucas</persName>
                    <note>Lucius Carter Lucas, born in 1888, was a resident at Hull House for an undisclosed period of time around 1909.</note>
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                    <persName>Esther Kohn</persName>
                    <note>Esther Kohn was born on January 12, 1875, to a prominent German-Jewish family from Chicago. She married Alfred Kohn in 1894 and studied in Europe for a few years. After her husband's death in 1909, Kohn dedicated herself to social work. She was an important part of the Hull House, taking care of the institution in Jane Addams' absence. Over the years, Kohn's interest in social work led to advancements in child and medical welfare, and she served on boards focused on immigration and Jewish organizations. Kohn coordinated between volunteer and professional social welfare organizations, and was active in the field of social work until her death in 1965.</note>
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                    <persName>Dr. Grace Meigs Crowder</persName>
                    <note>Dr. Grace Meigs Crowder was born Grace Meigs in 1881 in Rock Island, Illinois. She studied at Bryn Mawr College then went on to receive her medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1908. She spent her career in Chicago, conducting medical research and publishing a number of articles. She served as the director of the Division of Hygiene in the Children's Bureau of the United States from 1914-1918. Meigs married Dr. Thomas Reid Crowder in 1918 and changed her name to Dr. Grace Meigs Crowder. Miegs Crowder was especially interested in maternal and infant hygiene and her research was instrumental in bringing attention women's health issues in the United States. She died in  Chicago in 1925. </note>
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                    <persName>Mary Rozet Smith</persName>
                    <note>Mary Rozet Smith was born on December 23, 1868 in Chicago, Illinois, to wealthy parents who gave her the fortune to be the benefactor and trustee of Hull House. She began to volunteer at Hull House around 1889, teaching in the kindergarten. Although she was never a resident at the settlement house, she engaged deeply in her work at the House, managing the nursery and clubs and especially looking after things related to children. Her father, Mary Charles Mather Smith, financed the opening of The Children’s Building at Hull House. Smith’s philanthropy reached out beyond Hull House to other settlement houses in Chicago, and she was  involved with various other organizations. As Jane Addams’s lifelong companion, Smith took care of Addams who often fell ill. On February 22, 1934, Smith died from pneumonia at the age of 65. </note>
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                    <persName>Evelyn "Evie" Julia Boone Tate Shankle</persName>
                    <note>Evelyn "Eva/Evie" Shankle was born in 1868. She operated the Willard Industrial School in Landrum S.C. Shankle opened the school in 1909 with the intention of providing education and assistance to area children. Children who lived too far away to attend day school were allowed to board at the school to have access to an education. The Willard School was funded by donations and Shankle gave speeches and wrote letters to solicit funds. Jane Addams was a patroness the the school and one of the buildings was named in her honor. </note>
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                    <persName>Louise deKoven Bowen</persName>
                    <note>Louise deKoven Bowen was born on February 26, 1859 in Chicago, Illinois. She became involved at Hull House during its early years in 1983 and later became an officer and trustee of the settlement house. Perhaps her most significant legacy from her time at Hull House is her development of the Bowen Country Club, a summer camp for the underprivileged children of Hull House. Though she was mostly active in improving conditions for children and immigrants, Bowen also took part in the suffragette movement and fought to extend the limits of a woman’s role in the church system. She became president of the Hull House association after Jane Addams’ death in 1935 and remained socially and politically active until her death at 94 years old.</note>
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                    <persName>Mr. Anderson</persName>
                    <note>Though his actual identity remains unknown, Mr. Anderson was likely a resident at Hull House.</note>
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                    <persName>Mr. "Smoot"</persName>
                    <note>Though his name and identity remains unclear, Mr. "Smoot" was likely a resident at Hull House.</note>
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                    <persName>Charles Richmond Henderson</persName>
                    <note>Charles Richmond Henderson was born on December 17, 1848 in Covington, Indiana. He served as a pastor for 19 years from 1873 to 1892, first at Terre Haute in Indiana, and then at Detroit. In 1892, Henderson became a professor in Sociology at the University of Chicago. He studied and acted for the improvement in public welfare, and asserted the importance of education and public health through reform movements, lectures and writings. His indeavor to enhance the civic life extended to the study of unemployment, industrial medicine, prison reform and criminology. He also held positions in various philanthropic societies, one of which is the president of Chicago Society of Social Hygiene as mentioned in Addams’s letter. Henderson's work was closely related to that of Hull House women. One example is the Chicago Institute at the Univeristy of Chicago he cofounded with Julia Lathrop and Graham Talyor. Edith Abbott, Jane Addams, Mary McDowell, and Sophonisba Breckinridge were all involved in the Chicago Institute. He died on March 29, 1915.
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                    <persName>Samuel Sidney McClure</persName>
                    <note>Born on February 17, 1857 in County Antrim, Ireland, Samuel Sidney McClure is a self-made man who, as a poor immigrant, made his way into the publishing business. When he was nine years old, he moved to the United States with his mother and two brothers. He graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1882. After building his career in publishing through college newspapers, magazines and presses, he established The McClure Syndicate which played an important role in promoting American and British writers in 1884. In 1894, he launched McClure's Magazine with his college friend, John Sanborn Phillips. In 1902, the magazine began to expose the corruption of the government through the writings, from which "muckraking journalism" originated. Jane Addams wrote articles for this magazine, used them later as the materials for her book, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil (1912). In 1945, he received the Order of Merit by the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died on March 21, 1949.
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                    <p>Trip to Upper Egypt</p>
                    <note>On February 18, 1913, Jane Addams went on a trip to Egypt, and then to Palestine and Italy, with Mary Rozet Smith, which was a birthday gift from Louise Bowen and Mary Smith. Although it was going to be only four-month trip, it stirred Chicago, gathering over 1,200 people at a farewell dinner for her. Graham Taylor wrote in the Chicago Daily News, “No one could be more missed from Chicago than she.” Her travels in Egypt deeply impressed her. During the trip she penned an essay, “The Unexpected Reactions of a Traveler in Egypt” later published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1914, and a book, The Long Road of Woman’s Memory (1916) in which she contemplates on humanism, memory, death and afterlife.</note>
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                    <note>Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House in 1889. Inspired by Toynbee Hall in London, Hull House began with outreach programs for the large immigrant population in the South side of Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, the scope of programs offered expanded widely, and Hull House attracted numerous experts in the American social work field. Hull House residents conducted research and fought for social reform in the United States. At its height, Hull House included about a dozen buildings; today, the only remaining building is the original house opened by Jane Addams.
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                    <note>U. of C. refers to the University of Chicago, one of the institutions residents of the Hull House worked closely with. Edith Abbott was the first dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
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Abbott/Addams Letter Archive Annotations Abbott/Addams Letter Archive Group Freely available for download and redistribution for educational, non-commercial use. Born digital.

Trip to Upper Egypt

18 On February 18, 1913, Jane Addams went on a trip to Egypt, and then to Palestine and Italy, with Mary Rozet Smith, which was a birthday gift from Louise Bowen and Mary Smith. Although it was going to be only four-month trip, it stirred Chicago, gathering over 1,200 people at a farewell dinner for her. Graham Taylor wrote in the Chicago Daily News, “No one could be more missed from Chicago than she.” Her travels in Egypt deeply impressed her. During the trip she penned an essay, “The Unexpected Reactions of a Traveler in Egypt” later published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1914, and a book, The Long Road of Woman’s Memory (1916) in which she contemplates on humanism, memory, death and afterlife.

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Abbott/Addams Letter Archive Annotations Abbott/Addams Letter Archive Group Freely available for download and redistribution for educational, non-commercial use. Born digital. Edith Abbott Edith Abbott was born on September 26, 1876 in Grand Island, Nebraska, into a politically and socially active Nebraskan family. After receiving a degree at the University of Nebraska, Edith attended the University of Chicago on a fellowship to study political economy. In 1905, she obtained her doctoral degree and spent multiple years at the University College London studying social economics and welfare. She returned to the United States to continue a successful career of teaching and researching social welfare alongside Grace Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and other women at Jane Addams’ Hull House. Abbott’s work focused on social statistics as a methodology to look critically at women’s rights, child labor, immigration, and public welfare. She was promoted to Dean of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration in 1924, and held that position until retiring in 1942. Grace Abbott Grace Abbott, sister of Edith Abbott, was born to an influential family in Grand Island, Nebraska on November 17, 1878. After several years of teaching high school in Grand Island and receiving a degree at the University of Nebraska, Grace moved to Chicago to join her sister at Jane Addams’ Hull House. She became increasingly involved in social reform regarding immigrant rights, child labor laws, and women’s rights. In 1917, Abbott moved to Washington D.C. where she quickly became the director of the Child Labor Division of the Children’s Bureau in 1917. She led the Bureau until her health began to fail and she returned to Chicago to live with Edith in 1934. Though undergoing continued poor health, Grace continued her involvement in the Social Security Administration until her death in 1939. John Commons Born on October 13, 1862 in Hollansburg, Ohio, John Rogers Commons is best known as the first economist committed to advocating the U.S. labor through the research, movement, and legislative activity. After graduating Oberlin College in 1888, he continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University for two years. In 1895, Commons began teaching at Syracuse University from which he was fired four years later as he was considered radical by the school. In 1904, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Wisconsin to teach labor economics until his retirement in 1933. He made many contributions to Wisconsin as well as the federal government, notably in the outline of legislation in Wisconsin for labor unions, unemployment insurance, minimum wage and in the design of the Social Security Act of 1935. His acclaimed publications include Documentary History of American Industrial Society and History of Labor in the United States. Commons died on May 11, 1945. Ella Stewart Miss Stewart likely refers to Ella Jane (Seass) Stewart. Ella Stewart was a prominent lecturer and suffragist born in 1890 in Arthur, Illinois. During her career she held office in several suffrage associations as vice president and later president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association from 1902-1911 and as secretary of the Nation American Woman Suffrage Association from 1908-1911. She was also active in local organizations such as the Chicago Woman's Club, the American Association of University Women, and the Woman's City Club. Stewart was the vice chair of the Department of Social and Industrial Conditions, was a trustee of Eureka College, and directed the Association of Chicago Bank Women. Jane Addams Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois in a wealthy family. She received the bachelor's degree from Rockford College for Women in 1882. She studied medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, but completed only one year due to her poor health. Inspired from her visit to Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in London, she co-founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 to help immigrants in Chicago. Addams was actively engaged in woman suffrage and international peace movement serving as an officer in the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and leading organizations such as Women's Peace Party, the International Congress of Women and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 71. Addams died of cancer in 1935. Mary McDowell Mary McDowell, born on November 20, 1854, was involved in relief and aid in Chicago for the entirety of her career, beginning with the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. After teaching kindergarten at Hull House under the supervision of Jane Addams, McDowell opened the Chicago Settlement House in 1894 where she improved living conditions and educational opportunities for immigrant families. She later became interested in waste disposal programs, earning the nickname “The Garbage Lady.” After a successful career, McDowell retired at 75 and later died in 1936. Sophonisba Breckinridge Shophonisba Breckinridge was born on April 1, 1866 in Lexington Kentucky to a prominent family. After passing the Kentucky bar exam, Breckinridge moved to Chicago to earn her Ph.D. in political science and economics. She then became an instructor and researcher of social reform and immigrant rights at the University of Chicago before becoming involved at Jane Addams’ Hull House where she met and began a collaborative relationship with Edith Abbott. Together, Abbott and Breckinridge established the Wendell Phillips Settlement House as well as the Social Service Review scholarly journal. Throughout her career, Breckinridge devoted her time to improving labor conditions, immigrant rights, women’s suffrage, and creating child labor laws before passing away at the age of 82. Lucius Carter Lucas Lucius Carter Lucas, born in 1888, was a resident at Hull House for an undisclosed period of time around 1909. Esther Kohn Esther Kohn was born on January 12, 1875, to a prominent German-Jewish family from Chicago. She married Alfred Kohn in 1894 and studied in Europe for a few years. After her husband's death in 1909, Kohn dedicated herself to social work. She was an important part of the Hull House, taking care of the institution in Jane Addams' absence. Over the years, Kohn's interest in social work led to advancements in child and medical welfare, and she served on boards focused on immigration and Jewish organizations. Kohn coordinated between volunteer and professional social welfare organizations, and was active in the field of social work until her death in 1965. Dr. Grace Meigs Crowder Dr. Grace Meigs Crowder was born Grace Meigs in 1881 in Rock Island, Illinois. She studied at Bryn Mawr College then went on to receive her medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1908. She spent her career in Chicago, conducting medical research and publishing a number of articles. She served as the director of the Division of Hygiene in the Children's Bureau of the United States from 1914-1918. Meigs married Dr. Thomas Reid Crowder in 1918 and changed her name to Dr. Grace Meigs Crowder. Miegs Crowder was especially interested in maternal and infant hygiene and her research was instrumental in bringing attention women's health issues in the United States. She died in Chicago in 1925. Mary Rozet Smith Mary Rozet Smith was born on December 23, 1868 in Chicago, Illinois, to wealthy parents who gave her the fortune to be the benefactor and trustee of Hull House. She began to volunteer at Hull House around 1889, teaching in the kindergarten. Although she was never a resident at the settlement house, she engaged deeply in her work at the House, managing the nursery and clubs and especially looking after things related to children. Her father, Mary Charles Mather Smith, financed the opening of The Children’s Building at Hull House. Smith’s philanthropy reached out beyond Hull House to other settlement houses in Chicago, and she was involved with various other organizations. As Jane Addams’s lifelong companion, Smith took care of Addams who often fell ill. On February 22, 1934, Smith died from pneumonia at the age of 65. Evelyn "Evie" Julia Boone Tate Shankle Evelyn "Eva/Evie" Shankle was born in 1868. She operated the Willard Industrial School in Landrum S.C. Shankle opened the school in 1909 with the intention of providing education and assistance to area children. Children who lived too far away to attend day school were allowed to board at the school to have access to an education. The Willard School was funded by donations and Shankle gave speeches and wrote letters to solicit funds. Jane Addams was a patroness the the school and one of the buildings was named in her honor. Louise deKoven Bowen Louise deKoven Bowen was born on February 26, 1859 in Chicago, Illinois. She became involved at Hull House during its early years in 1983 and later became an officer and trustee of the settlement house. Perhaps her most significant legacy from her time at Hull House is her development of the Bowen Country Club, a summer camp for the underprivileged children of Hull House. Though she was mostly active in improving conditions for children and immigrants, Bowen also took part in the suffragette movement and fought to extend the limits of a woman’s role in the church system. She became president of the Hull House association after Jane Addams’ death in 1935 and remained socially and politically active until her death at 94 years old. Mr. Anderson Though his actual identity remains unknown, Mr. Anderson was likely a resident at Hull House. Mr. "Smoot" Though his name and identity remains unclear, Mr. "Smoot" was likely a resident at Hull House. Charles Richmond Henderson Charles Richmond Henderson was born on December 17, 1848 in Covington, Indiana. He served as a pastor for 19 years from 1873 to 1892, first at Terre Haute in Indiana, and then at Detroit. In 1892, Henderson became a professor in Sociology at the University of Chicago. He studied and acted for the improvement in public welfare, and asserted the importance of education and public health through reform movements, lectures and writings. His indeavor to enhance the civic life extended to the study of unemployment, industrial medicine, prison reform and criminology. He also held positions in various philanthropic societies, one of which is the president of Chicago Society of Social Hygiene as mentioned in Addams’s letter. Henderson's work was closely related to that of Hull House women. One example is the Chicago Institute at the Univeristy of Chicago he cofounded with Julia Lathrop and Graham Talyor. Edith Abbott, Jane Addams, Mary McDowell, and Sophonisba Breckinridge were all involved in the Chicago Institute. He died on March 29, 1915. Samuel Sidney McClure Born on February 17, 1857 in County Antrim, Ireland, Samuel Sidney McClure is a self-made man who, as a poor immigrant, made his way into the publishing business. When he was nine years old, he moved to the United States with his mother and two brothers. He graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1882. After building his career in publishing through college newspapers, magazines and presses, he established The McClure Syndicate which played an important role in promoting American and British writers in 1884. In 1894, he launched McClure's Magazine with his college friend, John Sanborn Phillips. In 1902, the magazine began to expose the corruption of the government through the writings, from which "muckraking journalism" originated. Jane Addams wrote articles for this magazine, used them later as the materials for her book, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil (1912). In 1945, he received the Order of Merit by the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died on March 21, 1949.

Trip to Upper Egypt

On February 18, 1913, Jane Addams went on a trip to Egypt, and then to Palestine and Italy, with Mary Rozet Smith, which was a birthday gift from Louise Bowen and Mary Smith. Although it was going to be only four-month trip, it stirred Chicago, gathering over 1,200 people at a farewell dinner for her. Graham Taylor wrote in the Chicago Daily News, “No one could be more missed from Chicago than she.” Her travels in Egypt deeply impressed her. During the trip she penned an essay, “The Unexpected Reactions of a Traveler in Egypt” later published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1914, and a book, The Long Road of Woman’s Memory (1916) in which she contemplates on humanism, memory, death and afterlife. Hull House Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House in 1889. Inspired by Toynbee Hall in London, Hull House began with outreach programs for the large immigrant population in the South side of Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, the scope of programs offered expanded widely, and Hull House attracted numerous experts in the American social work field. Hull House residents conducted research and fought for social reform in the United States. At its height, Hull House included about a dozen buildings; today, the only remaining building is the original house opened by Jane Addams. University of Chicago U. of C. refers to the University of Chicago, one of the institutions residents of the Hull House worked closely with. Edith Abbott was the first dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. The Societies of Moral Prophylaxis and of Social Hygiene The societies of Moral Prophylaxis and of Social Hygiene organized by physicians provided education about sexual hygiene for youths in schools and colleges through publications and lectures.