Ellen Gates Starr

Ellen Gates Starr

Ellen Gates Starr (March 19, 1859 near Laona, IllinoisFebruary 10, 1940 in Suffern, New York) was an American social reformer and activist.

Biography

Ellen Starr was born in Laona, Illinois and was a student at the Rockford Female Seminary (1877-78) where she met Jane Addams; their friendship lasted many years.citation |title=The Education of Jane Addams |first=Victoria Bissell |last=Brown |year=2007 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=0812237471 |page=361] Starr taught for ten years in Chicago before joining Addams in 1888 of a tour of Europe. While in London they were inspired by the success of the English Settlement movement and became determined to establish a similar social settlement in Chicago.

They returned to Chicago and cofounded Hull House as a kindergarten and then a day nursery, an infancy care centre and a center for continuing education for adults. Starr was also active in the campaign to reform child labor laws and industrial working conditions in Chicago. She was a member of the Women's Trade Union League and helped organize striking garment workers in 1896, 1910 and 1915. In 1930 Ellen Gates Starr retired to a Roman Catholic convent in Suffern, New York County, where she died on 10th February, 1940 Fact|date=July 2008.

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