Jane Addams

During her lifetime she was awarded with honorary degrees from 13 different universities, she was even the first woman to be given an honorary degree from Yale University.
Source: A Role Model for the 1990's (EBSCO)

Her and her friend Ellen Starr moved in 1889 into an old mansion in an immigrant neighborhood of Chicago.
Source: The Readers Campaign to American History

The Hull-Hosue was in full operation by 1893 and by then 2,000 people a week would come. Hull-House attracted brilliant men and women concerned about social problems who went to live there for periods ranging from short stays to many years. It became the center of an experiment in philanthropy, political action, and social science research, was a model for settlement work among the poor. She and other Hull-House residents sponsored legislation to abolish child labor, establish juvenile courts, limit the hours of working women.
Source: American Women's History and United States History

Jane declared, "This renaissance of the early Christian humanitarianism is going on in America, in Chicago, if you please without leaders who write of philosophize, without much speaking, but with a bent to express in social service and in terms of action the spirit of Christ."
Source: Jane Addams Apotheosis of Social Christianity

The thirty-three-year-old Jane Addams was describing herself, somewhat pridefully, as "the grandmother of American settlements"
Source: American National Biography Online

Addams founded the Chicago Federation of Settlements and later on helped to establish the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers.
Source: United States History

By about the age 40, Jane became a respected advocate for the poor.
Source: Historical American Biographies

Became the first president of the national conference of social work.
Source: American Women's History

She publicized Hull-House and the causes she believed in by lecturing and writing, like her autobiography Twenty Years at Hull-House.
Source: The Great American History Fact Find,

During her lifetime, much of the hostility, although she was attacked by the Marxist and the Socialists.
Source: Jane Addams and the Social Claim

During World War 1 she spoke throughout the country in favor of increasing food production to help the starving in Europe
Source: The Readers Campaign to American History

Miss Jane Addams of Chicago was unanimously selected as president Chairman of the International Congress of Women.
Source; London Correspondent of the United Press

She voted for Wilson in 1916 only to be disappointed and chagrined by his policies.
Sources: Jane Addams and the Social Claim

In the face of increasing criticism Addams helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. Instead of being called a Pacifist, people were now saying she way a socialist or Communist. Although she had a lot of criticism Hull-House stayed successful.
Source: United States History

Addams suffered from a heart attack from which she would never fully recover from, her health continued to decline.
Source: United States History

At the 1931 ceremony in Oslo, Jane Addams was awarded the Noble Peace Prize. She became the first american women to receive a Nobel Peace Prize
Source: Historical American Biographies

She was admitted to a Baltimore Hospital. That was the same day she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Source: American Women's History

She was, at her death American's best known and widely hailed woman.
Source: Jane Addams the Social Claim.