Ellen Gates Starr

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Hull House community workshop poster, 1938

Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) US social reformer and activist. Starr was born in Laona, Illinois and was a student at the Rockford Female Seminary (1877-78) where she met Jane Addams. 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.


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