Jane Addams was born in 1860 in Illinois. After graduating from Rockford Seminary, she visited Toynbee Hall settlement house in London and was inspired to found Hull House in Chicago in 1889 with her friend Ellen Starr. Hull House provided various social services and educational programs to the community, becoming a model for settlement houses. Over her lifetime, Jane Addams advocated for labor rights, women's suffrage, civil liberties, world peace and other progressive causes. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, becoming the first American woman to win the prize.

1. JANE ADDAMS
VENETIA D WATERS
Historical and Philosophical
Foundations of Education
EDUC 703
1860-1935

2. • Born in Cedarville, ILL, 1860
• Eighth of Nine Children
• Father a local political leader-served 16 years
as a State Senator ( friend of Abraham
Lincoln)
• Gradate from Rockford Seminary
(Valedictorian)
• Study medicine, but left due to poor health
• Age 27, Jane and her friend, Ellen Star visited
a settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in London.
From there Hulll House was born in their
hearts.
JANE ADDAMS

3. THE HULL HOUSE
services provided:
• Kindergarten and day care
• Employment bureau
• Art gallery
• Coffeehouse
• Circulating Library
• Art Studio, music school, drama group
• English and citizenship classes
• Later, more clubs and activities were
added.
• Founded in 1889 by Jane Addams &
Ellen Starr
• Used to promote and maintain
educational and philanthropy
enterprises as a mean of advancing
social and civic life in the industrial
center of Chicago
• By second year, over 2,000 people
visited Hull House each week

4. 1860 -- Born in Cedarville, Illinois
1877 -- Enters Rockford Female Seminary
1888– Visits Toynbee Hall in London
1889 -- Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in
Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr
1894 -- Helps found Chicago Federation of
Settlements
1903 -- Becomes vice president of National Woman's
Trade Union League
1905-09 -- Serves as founding member of Chicago
Board of Education
1909 -- Helps to establish the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
Life Timeline
LIFE TIMELINE

5. 1910 -- Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House
First honorary degree awarded to woman by Yell
University
1913 -- Attends Conference and Congress of
International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance, Budapest,
Hungary
1915 -- Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected
1st Chairman
1919 -- Founds Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom, serves as President 1919-1929
1920 -- Founding member of the American Civil
Liberties Union
1928 -- Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific
Women's Union in Hawaii
1931 -- 1st American woman recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize
1935 -- Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in
Cedarville, Illinois

6. Jane Addams on U.S.
postage stamp of 1940
AWARDED A POSTAL STAMP

7. Jane Addams