Starr, Ellen Gates 1859-1940
Variant namesEllen Gates Starr (1859-1940) was an educator, social activist, and co-founder of Hull-House. Friends since their student days at Rockford Female Seminary, Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams founded Hull-House in 1889. There, Starr taught art appreciation classes and was active in the labor movement. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, Starr studied with the English bookbinder T.J. Cobden Sanderson and opened a hand bookbinding shop at Hull-House in 1898. After converting to Catholicism and in failing health, Starr moved from Hull-House to the Convent of the Holy Child in Suffern N.Y. in 1929.
From the description of Ellen Gates Starr papers, 1885-1940. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 56714684
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| creatorOf | Jane Addams Papers | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| referencedIn | Janiewski, Dolores E., 1948-,. The American Federation of Labor and the unions : national and international union records from the Samuel Gompers era, 1890-1927. [microform] | Cornell University Library | |
| referencedIn | Blaine, Anita McCormick. Correspondence and papers, 1828-1958. | Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project | |
| creatorOf | Starr, Ellen Gates. Ellen Gates Starr papers, 1885-1940. | University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC | |
| creatorOf | Merrill, William Stetson, 1866-. Papers, 1888-1959 (bulk 1888-1918) | Newberry Library | |
| referencedIn | Lillie, Frances Crane, 1869-1958. Crane family and Lillie family papers, 1833-1978 (bulk 1890s-1960s). | Chicago History Museum | |
| referencedIn | Bulkley, Mary E. (Mary Ezit), 1856-1947. Grandmother, mother and me. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America |
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| associatedWith | Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. | person |
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| associatedWith | Bulkley, Mary E. (Mary Ezit), 1856-1947. | person |
| associatedWith | Lillie, Frances Crane, 1869-1958. | person |
| associatedWith | Merrill, William Stetson, 1866- | person |
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Birth 1859-03-19
Death 1940-02-10
