Nicholes, Anna Eliza (1865-1917)

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Neighborhood House (Chicago, IL)

Chicago Industrial Exhibit (1907)

Harriet Eliza Merriam Van Der Vaart and Anna Eliza Nicholes to Jane Addams, [May 1908]

Anna Eliza Nicholes to Brand Whitlock, December 24, 1908

Anna Eliza Nicholes to Brand Whitlock, January 14, 1909

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 18, 1911

Jane Addams et al. to Louis Freeland Post, October 18, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 18, 1913

Summary of Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 19, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Emmeline Pankhurst, October 19, 1913

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Birth Date

1865-05-02

Death Date

1917-07-20

Birthplace

Illinois

Biographical Text

Anna Eliza Nicholes was one of the founders and residents of Neighborhood House in Chicago. She was also a founder and the first civic director of the Woman’s City Club, a member of the county civil service commission, the Illinois Suffrage Association, the Consumer’s League, the Woman’s Trade Union League, and an editor for the Union Labor Advocate. In 1906, Nicholes ran unsuccessfully for University of Illinois Trustee.

Occupation

Settlement house resident

Source

"Neighborhood House: A Cooperative Social Center," La Follette's Magazine, 2 (October 15, 1910): 9.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Bradley, Ed

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1906

Bibliography and Links

"Anna E. Nicholes," Her Hat Was in the Ring!: U.S. Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920

"Death of Miss Anna E. Nicholes of Neighborhood House," Suburbanite Economist, July 27, 1917, 5.

"Neighborhood House:A Cooperative Social Center," La Follette's Magazine, 2 (October 15, 1910): 9.

1870 U.S. Federal Census

Fifty-Second Official Circular of Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, 1902-1903 (Chicago: P.F. Pettibone & Co., 1903), page 54

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“Nicholes, Anna Eliza (1865-1917),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 20, 2024, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/2024.

Nicholes, Anna Eliza (1865-1917)

Item Relations

Neighborhood House (Chicago, IL)

Chicago Industrial Exhibit (1907)

Harriet Eliza Merriam Van Der Vaart and Anna Eliza Nicholes to Jane Addams, [May 1908]

Anna Eliza Nicholes to Brand Whitlock, December 24, 1908

Anna Eliza Nicholes to Brand Whitlock, January 14, 1909

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 18, 1911

Jane Addams et al. to Louis Freeland Post, October 18, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 18, 1913

Summary of Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 19, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Emmeline Pankhurst, October 19, 1913

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, May 10, 1909

Jane Addams to John Gillett Oglesby, May 8, 1911

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, September 19, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, November 5, 1912

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, July 18, 1913

Rockford College Fortieth Anniversary Speech, November 8, 1913 (excerpts)

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, July 20, 1917

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 25, 1917

An Appreciation from Miss Addams, September 1917

Harriet Eliza Merriam Van Der Vaart to Jane Addams, July 13, 1923

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