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Hull House

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Hull House: see Addams, Jane Addams, Jane, 1860–1935, American social worker, b. Cedarville, Ill., grad. Rockford College, 1881. In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, she founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in the United States (see settlement house).
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THOUGH PERKINS GREW up in Boston as a Congregationalist, she was confirmed at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit near Chicago, where she was teaching and volunteering at Jane Addams' Hull House.
She learned from the radical feminist Florence Kelley, who remained her mentor, and Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, a leading "settlement house" which had the implementation of social reform as its goal.
The third volume contains short biographies of 130 significant figures of American education, from Jane Addams, a cofounder of Hull House, to Ella Flagg Young, the superintendent of the Chicago Schools from 1900- 1915.
 
 
 
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