Binford, Jessie Florence (1876-1966)

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Jessie Florence Binford to Irene Osgood, August 21, 1908

Hull-House Residents Protest, ca. November 1926

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Birth Date

1876-01-20

Death Date

1966-07

Birthplace

Marshalltown, IA

Biographical Text

Jessie Florence Binford was a graduate of Rockford College and Smith College who visited Hull-House in the summers before becoming a full-time resident in 1902. While at Hull-House, Binford became the president of the Legal Aid Society and secretary of the Hull-House branch of the Juvenile Protection Association. She dedicated much of her life to working to better conditions for children, women and the poor, working to investigate prostitution, organized crime, and political corruption. Binford was well-known in Chicago for her outspoken support for the fight against drugs. In 1963, when the city took over the Hull-House campus and evicted the remaining residents, she was the last to leave. Binford died in 1966.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

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Female

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1904

Bibliography and Links

Jessie F. Binford papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

SNAC

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

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“Binford, Jessie Florence (1876-1966),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 12, 2024, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1432.

Binford, Jessie Florence (1876-1966)

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Hull-House

Rockford College

Smith College

Jessie Florence Binford to Irene Osgood, August 21, 1908

Hull-House Residents Protest, ca. November 1926

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 7, 1904

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Jane Addams to W. E. B. Du Bois, June 14, 1908

Jane Addams to W. E. B. Du Bois, August 24, 1908

May Wright Sewall to N. M. Thompson, September 4, 1915

Jane Addams to Esther Loeb Kohn, September 18, 1916

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, November 17, 1917

John Francis Glynn to Jane Addams, 1921

Lucia Osbourne Ford Rutter to Jane Addams. January 18, 1925

List of Hull-House contributors to the Barnett Memorial Fellowship, March 1925

Louis J. Affelder to Jane Addams, May 26, 1925

Interview with Jane Addams and Impressions of Hull-House, July 5, 1925

Dorothy Detzer to Jane Addams, November 15, 1926

Mary A. Byles Maynard to Jane Addams, December 8, 1926

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, January 10, 1927

Lucia Osbourne Ford Rutter to Jane Addams, January 20, 1927

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