by Sara Catherine Lichon. Sometimes the stories and scandals of celebrities come up when researching for the JAPP. Oftentimes, the famous are only mentioned briefly in one of Addams’ letters, and their scandals become known when we research their lives to write their biographies.
This is the last in Sara Catherine Lichon’s series of blog posts about interesting characters that she came across while working as a co-operative education student for the Project this semester. Her work involves identifying and describing the over 5,000 unique individuals mentioned in Addams’ correspondence. Life in law can often be exciting, especially when …
Continue reading “Facing Death Twice: Lawyer Francis J. Heney”
Sara Catherine Lichon is writing a series of blog posts about interesting characters that she comes across while working as a co-operative education student for the Project this semester. Her work involves identifying and describing the over 5,000 unique individuals mentioned in Addams’ correspondence. As a student, I’ve heard many a time that academic honesty …
Continue reading “Poet and Con-Artist: The Story of Scharmel Iris”
Dr. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss was a doctor and surgeon in Shelby, Ohio, who wrote Jane Addams a brief letter on August 10, 1912, commending her for her speech to the Progressive Party Convention. DeVilbiss was an active civic leader, serving as president of the Shelby Equal Franchise Association, president of the Richland county Woman’s Suffrage …
Continue reading “Behind Closed Doors: The Divorce Case of Dr. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss”
Sometimes the pressures of life can make one want to run away and start over. Oftentimes people do not act on these feelings, but in 1923 one person did: Lewis E. Larson. A member of the Chicago Board of Education, Larson once sent Jane Addams a report on kindergarten membership in 1906. Nearly two decades …
Continue reading “A Double Life: The Story of Lewis E. Larson”
When researching those who have corresponded with Jane Addams, you come across a variety of unique individuals. As a research assistant who has been researching and writing biographies for a number of semesters, I’ve seen my fair share of interesting people — and I thought I’d share some of their stories with you! Among all …
Continue reading “From Journalist to Criminal: The Story of Herbert George Buss”
When I first heard the Jane Addams Papers Project had come to Ramapo, I was beginning my sophomore year. I had just been thinking about research opportunities for history majors, so it seemed almost like fate when I saw posters around campus advertising for the JAPP interest meeting. Next thing I knew, I was part …
The Jane Addams Papers at Ramapo College of New Jersey Editors Cathy Moran Hajo (Editor/Director) Stacy Lynn (Assistant Editor) Caitlin Biebrich (Assistant Editor) Victoria Sciancalepore (Assistant Editor 2015-2024) Students Giavanna Barras is an Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a junior History Major at Ramapo College of …
Jane Addams’ unpublished writings are in the public domain, as are all of her published works written more than 95 years ago (1927). Unpublished documents — letters, diaries, speech texts — written more than 70 years from the death of the author are in the public domain. This holds for Jane Addams, who died in …
1860 September 6, 1860 Jane Addams is the eighth child born to Sarah Weber Addams and John Huy Addams, natives of Pennsylvania who had settled in Cedarville, Illinois. Addams’s father, a farmer, also developed a prosperous gristmill in Cedarville and a bank in Freeport, Illinois. He served in the Senate of the Illinois General Assembly …
