https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/original/2d716761e4d142b45338c72304f244dc.pdf 7a19a0a3fde33d1c53b9a52c58c5acf6 PDF Text Text 'Yards' Folks Lose IS DEAD: LOVED Benefactor Death Ends Forty Years of Social Service Work; Hono n o r e d by Governments Mary Eliza McDowell, founder of the University of Chicago Settlement at 4630 Gross St., and called "mother" by. the folks "back o* th' yards" for more than forty years, died yesterday in the home of her brother, Irwin, 5345 Ellis av. She would have celebrated her eighty-second birthday November 30, and although she has been ailing since the middle of August her death was unexpected. She her death was unexpected. A paralytic stroke following a fall ten days ago, was not expected to be fatal. She died in her sleep at about 11:30 a. m. SERVED IMMIGRANTS. News of Miss McDowell's death spread rapidly throughout the district in which, she had served the poor immigrants from many nations for so long. To the Irish settlers, then the Czechs, and Slovaks and Hungarians, she_was "mother." Born in Cincinnati, Miss McDowell came to Chicago with her parents, Malcolm andJaneGordon McDowell, afamilyofVirginia stock. A young girl in her RG early twenties and just out of a V young ladles' school on the North J.1/ Side, she became interested in the K work two other young ' women, R Jane Addams and Ellen Gates II R Starr, were doing at Hull House. A E OPENS SETTLEMENT. V In November. 1894, she opened a settlement In a two-story frame W V, house on the site of the present R settlement. Starting with a kin- CT» dergarten for children of the im- L' P migrants, she soon attracted the W attention of University of Chicago P sociologists, who threw the sup- LL port of their institution behind O A her. For aiding their nationals to ad- rji just themselves to American life, Aji Miss McDowell was decorated by H President Masaryk of Czechoslo- EG vakia with the Order of the White C Lion and by the Lithuanian gov- PH ernment with Order of the Grand E B Duke Gedeminas. ' y. COULDN'T RETIRE. E Miss McDowell retired officially F two years ago, but kept Up her J-S work, refusing to stay "retired." J. "These people need me and I'm F going on to the end," she told AT friends. Surviving are two. brothers, Malcolm- McDowell, - C h i c a g o newspaper man; Irwin, and a Sister, "Mrs. Hopkins. Mrs. Ethel Remick McDowell, wife of Irwin, arid ln charge of social work in the Municipal Court, was In Bloomlngton, Ill., attending a convention , when Miss McDowell passed away. BODY TO LIE IN STATE. In deferense to the thousands of friends who wish to pay their last respects to Miss McDowell, the body will lie in state in the Ludlow chapel, 6110 Cottage Grove av., this afternoon. Funeral services will be held at M' 2 p. m. tomorrow In the First Uni- P< tarian . Church, Fifty-seventh st. G( and Woodlawn av., with the Rev. LI Von Ogden Vogt, pastor, officiat- CI ing. Interment will be private at Je Ft Rosehill Cemetery. St MARY E . MCDOWELL Immigrants' friend die* • Ml � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kadlec, Anna Papers Subject The topic of the resource Women social workers--United States. Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. Women social reformers--United States. Description An account of the resource Anna Kadlec spent her career in social work. She worked closely with individuals like Jane Addams in the Chicago settlement house movement to improve social conditions for impoverished communities. Afterwards, she went on to study the employment of women in Chicago meat packing plants and to work as a teacher at Model. <br /><br />Only a portion of this collection has been digitized. See the <a href="http://ekufindingaids.libraryhost.com/?p=collections/findingaid&amp;id=102&amp;q=">Finding Aid</a> for a description of the entire collection. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1898-1988 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource photograph correspondence, publications, documents Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2005A005 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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