She is increasingly being known as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. Throughout her life Addams was close to several women and was very good at eliciting the participation of women from different classes in Hull House's program. Her closest adult companion and friend was Ellen Gates Starr, who sustain Addams's work at Hull House, and with whom she mutual a romantic friendship. Together they possess a summer house in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 2007, a combined resolution of the Illinois General Assembly renamed the Northwest Tollway as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway. Jane Addams House is a residence hall construct in 1947, at Connecticut College.
Date Of Birth | September 6, 1860 |
Place Of Birth | Carbondale, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | a social and political activist, an author and lecturer, a community organizer, a public intellectual |
Parents | John H. Addams, Sarah Weber |
Date Of Died | May 21, 1935 |
Place Of Died | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |