Jane Addams Research Paper

This research paper will identify and point out highlights of Jane Addams uncovering an in-depth explanation of the importance of her and also the impact Ms. Addams had on the first third of the twentieth century. Born on the 6th of September, 1860, Jane Addams would win recognition worldwide as a “pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and an internationalist” making her the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize. Jane was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children. Serving sixteen years as a state senator, Jane’s father was a political leader and prosperous miller who also fought in the Civil War as an officer. Mr. Addams had raised all nine children by himself when his wife died after Jane was three. As a young girl, Jane attended Rockford Female Seminary, graduating as the valedictorian of her class. A year after she graduated, Addams was granted the bachelor’s degree after the school was accredited that year as Rockford College for Women. In the course of six years after graduating, Jane began the study of medicine but left sooner than planned because of poor health. She was hospitalized intermittently, Jane studied and traveled in Europe for twenty-one months, then spent 2 years after that reading and writing while also …show more content…
At the age of 27, Addams and a friend of hers, Ellen G. Starr, attended another tour of Europe where they visited a settlement house. Toynbee Hall, in London’s East End. This visit helped to finalize an idea for Addams of opening a