Jane Addams Chronology

1877 Enters Rockford Female Seminary

1881 Graduates from Rockford

1881 Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England

1889 Founds Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr

1894 Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements

1895 Becomes garbage inspector for 19th Ward, Near West Side

1903 Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League

1905-1908 Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education

1909 Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Elected first woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections
(later National Conference of Social Work)

1910 Mediator in Chicago Garment Worker's Strike
Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House

1911-1914 First Vice President of national American Woman Suffrage Association
First head of national Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers

1912 Seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination at Progressive Party convention

1913 Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, Budapest, Hungary

1915 Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected First Chairman
Presides at International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands

1919 Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; serves as President 1919-29

1920 Helps found the American Civil Liberties Union

1928 Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Union in Hawaii

1931 First American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1935 Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois

* Source: Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum
The University of Illinois at Chicago
800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7017