1893 - Philanthropy

Philanthropy

Chicago social worker Julia C. (Clifford) Lathrop, 35, wins appointment to the Illinois State Board of Charities, becoming its first female member. A Vassar graduate who joined Jane Addams's Hull-House settlement 3 years ago, Lathrop will contribute reforms that will include appointment of female physicians and nurses in state hospitals, the removal of insane people from poorhouses, and the establishment of America's first juvenile court.

Denison House opens in Boston's South End under the direction of social worker Helena Dudley and Indian-born Wellesley College English professor (Julia) Vita Scudder (née Dutton), 31, whose settlement house is the Boston branch of the College Settlements Association.

New York's Henry Street Settlement House has its beginnings in the Nurses' Settlement founded by trained nurse and social worker Lillian D. Wald, 26, to help immigrants on the city's Lower East Side, most of them poor Jews. She will soon add a nurses' training program, community educational programs, and youth clubs (see Chicago's Hull-House, 1889). Wald will develop a visiting nurse program that within 13 years will have 100 nurses making 227,000 house calls per year.

Reformer Lucy Stone delivers a lecture at Chicago's Columbian Exposition but dies at Dorchester, Massachusetts, October 18 at age 75.