Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury (1867-1951)

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Greenwich House

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

Jane Addams to Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, January 24, 1917

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch to Jane Addams, January 12, 1925

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Birth Date

1867-09-08

Death Date

1951-11-15

Birthplace

Chestnut Hill, MA

Biographical Text

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch was the founder of the Greenwich House, a settlement house in Greenwich Village in New York City. She attended Boston University, where she volunteered at a teenage girls' club at Boston's St. Augustine's Episcopal Church and at St. Monica's Home for old colored women. After graduating college, Simkhovitch worked as a teacher at Somerville High School in Massachusetts. In 1894 she started to study for a graduate degree at Radcliffe College, and in 1895 she attended the University of Berlin. While in Berlin, she met Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch, who she later married. Afterward, she attended Columbia University, and in 1902 she founded the Greenwich House. In 1905 Simkhovitch was a member of the Committee of Fourteen, which was working to reduce prostitution in New York City.

Simkhovitch married Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch in 1899. Simkhovitch died in 1951.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Female

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1902

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“Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury (1867-1951),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed December 9, 2023, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1865.

Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury (1867-1951)

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Greenwich House

Louise E. Bolard More to Jane Addams, July 16, 1902

Address on Neighborhood Improvement, June 25, 1904 (Extract)

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, August 19, 1904

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, October 9, 1907

The Relation of "Settlements" and Religion, November 8, 1908

Edith Abbott to Jane Addams, July 25, 1911

Edward Thomas Devine to Members of the Committee on Industrial Relations, May 23, 1912

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, September 10, 1912

Katharine Coman to Jane Addams, June 26, 1913

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, March 13, 1915

Robert Archey Woods to Jane Addams, May 1, 1916

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, August 10, 1920

Winifred Salisbury to Jane Addams, October 24, 1922

Impressions of Political Movements in the Orient, March 28, 1924 (excerpts)

Barnett Memorial Fellowship Supporter List, February 14, 1925

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

Jane Addams to Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, January 24, 1917

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch to Jane Addams, January 12, 1925

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