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Abbott, Edith

From Encyclopedia of American Urban History
Edith Abbott (1876-1957) was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. She was one of the first women in America to earn a doctoral degree. In 1924, she became the dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, a position she held for 18 years. As such, she had a profound influence on the emerging field of social work. Abbott came from a family that had an intense interest in social activism. Her mother participated in the abolitionist and women's rights movements. Abbott's sister, Grace, served as the chief of the Children's Bureau within the U.S. Department of Labor from 1921 to 1934. Abbott graduated from a girls' boarding school in Omaha in 1893. Although Abbott wanted to attend college, her parents could not afford it at the time. Consequently, Abbott returned to Grand Island and taught high school for 2 years. She eventually attended the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1901. She went on to attend the University of Chicago, earning a Ph.D. in…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
American feminist, economist and social reformer. From Nebraska where she was born, and where she graduated in 1901, Edith Abbott moved to Chicago, and took her PhD in 1905 with a study of unskilled labour in the United States from 1850. The following year she gained a Carnegie Fellowship to study…
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From Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
(b. 1876–d. 1957) social worker, educator, author Edith Abbott, born in Grand Island, Nebraska, on September 26, 1876, was the older sister of Grace Abbott . Her mother, Elizabeth Griffin Abbott, was an abolitionist and women's suffrage leader. Abbott graduated from the University of Nebraska in…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
This entry has two subentries : Before 1945 ; and Post-World War II . The history of social science and the American republic are roughly coterminous. Both had their origins in the Enlightenment with its faith in progress and belief in the existence of natural laws. Scientific thinking about society…
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From Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations
Abbott, Diane Julie 1953- Abelard, Peter 1079-1142 Abercrombie, Lascelles 1881-1938 Abrams, M(eyer) H(oward) 1912- Abse, Dannie 1923-2014 Abu’l-’Alá, Al-Ma’arri 973-1058 Abzug, Bella originally Bella Savitzky 1920-98…
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From The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
The names of subjects have been reduced to the minimum necessary for identification, using the names by which subjects are best known. Names in italics are co-subjects (see the explanation in the Readers’ Guide on page xxvii). Aid (see also Development) Farquharson, Marjorie (1953–2016) Norgrove, …
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From A Brief History of Australia
at least 65,000 B.C.E. Date of migration of Australia's Indigenous people. ca. 40,000 B.C.E. Extinction of the last of Australia's megafauna. ca. 20,000 B.C.E. Indigenous societies are now evident in every corner of Australia. ca. 17,000 B.C.E. The end of the Last Glacial Maximal produces a distinct…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US social worker and activist. From 1919 Abbott was the director of the federal Children's Bureau, later becoming president of the National Conference of Social Workers (1923–24), and an adviser to the League of Nations (1922–34). She campaigned for the fair treatment of children and immigrants…
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From American Biographies: American Social Leaders and Activists
Social reformer and suffragist Grace Abbott...
(b. 1878–d. 1939) social worker, child labor reformer As director of the Immigrants’ Protective League and head of the federal Children's Bureau, Grace Abbott was an important force in social reform. She was born on November 17, 1878, in Grand Island, Nebraska, the daughter of Othman Abbott, a…
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From Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
(b. 1878–d. 1939) social worker, child labor reformer Grace Abbott was born on November 17, 1878, and raised in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her father was the state's lieutenant governor, and her mother was an abolitionist and suffragist. Grace received her bachelor's degree from Grand Island College in…
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