Documentary jane addams biography timeline

1860

Born in Cedarville, Illinois

1877

Enters Rockford Female Seminary

1881

Graduates from Rockford

1888

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

1905-08

Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education

1909

Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Elected 1st 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

1911-14

1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association

1st head of National Federation of Settle