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Ellen Gates Starr

Tyler Davis

Updated Sept. 14, 2019

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Ellen Gates Starr

Tyler Davis

Later Life

Ellen withdrew from the public view as her health grew poorer and was left paralyzed after an operation in 1929.
The Hull House was not equipped or staffed for the level of care she required.
As Jane and Ellen did not agree on religion anyway, Ellen retired to a Roman Catholic convent in Suffern, New York.
Ellen died 10 years later in 1940.
The Hull House remains standing today, her legacy lives on.

Ellen and Janes - Hull House

cont. Hull House

Jane Addams decided to take a trip to Europe and invited Ellen.
They were inspired by the Toynbee Settlement Hall to start their own similar settlement house.
They decided to put the settlement home in Chicago where Ellen had been working.

cont. Hull House

The Life of Ellen

The place they took residence on September 18, 1889 was previously a mansion owned by the Hull family, thus the name Hull House
They began experimenting with the community to see how to best serve the people who would be inhabiting their establishment.
Ellen led reading groups and lectures, in hopes that education would help uplift the poor.

Ellen worked to reform, with other Hull House associates, child labor laws and help poor immigrant factory workers.
Ellen lived at the Hull House for almost 30 years
Ellen tried to instill an appreciation for art and creativity in the lives of the people at the Hull House
"Working at an art or craft results in happier and more rational human beings"

Ellen Gates Starr was born in 1859 in Laona, Illinois and died in 1940.
Her aunt, an art scholar, led Ellen to enroll in Rockford Female Seminary, where she would meet Jane Addams.
Ellen left Rockford after her parents could no longer afford tuition.
She became a teacher in Mount Morris and later moved to teach at an all girls school in Chicago.

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