Lovejoy, Owen Reed (1866-1961)

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National Child Labor Committee

National Conference of Charities and Correction

Progressive National Service, Child Welfare Committee

Jane Addams et al. to Members of the American Association for Labor Legislation, October 30, 1908

Jane Addams to Irene Osgood, October 31, 1908 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 7, 1908

Jane Addams and Harriet Eliza Merriam Van Der Vaart to Anita McCormick Blaine, October 23, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 3, 1911

Blanche Bates to Jane Addams, April 21, 1911

Harriet J. Fowler to Jane Addams, April 27, 1911

Edward Fisher Brown to Jane Addams, May 1, 1911

Edward Fisher Brown to Jane Addams, May 4, 1911

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 27, 1911

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

Edward Thomas Devine to Emily Greene Balch, September 2, 1912

Alexander Jeffrey McKelway to Jane Addams, October 5, 1912

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Jane Addams, January 15, 1913

Paul Underwood Kellogg to William Draper Lewis, April 9, 1913

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

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, November 14, 1913

Jane Addams to Arthur Hale Woods, February 3, 1914

Collated Criticisms of the Draft Resolution, April 1914

William Colfax Graves for Julius Rosenwald to Jane Addams, April 30, 1914

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 11, 1914

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 15, 1914

List of Invitees to Henry Street Conference on September 29, 1914, September 22, 1914.

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 8, 1914

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, December 17, 1914

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 27, 1914

The Child and the War, March 7, 1915 (excerpts)

Liberty Defense Union List, March 7, 1918

Lillian D. Wald to Mary Rozet Smith, March 13, 1919

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, December 15, 1919

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, February 6, 1920

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, November 8, 1920

The Irish Committee at Work, November 10, 1920

Comments on Peace and Bread in Time of War, December 1921

Graham Romeyn Taylor to Julia C. Lathrop, June 12, 1922

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, June 24, 1922

John Dutton Wansor to Jane Addams, January 17, 1924

Mr. Ware and the Peasants, July 22, 1925

The Spider Web, ca. January 1927

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Owen Reed Lovejoy, April 10, 1911

Jane Addams Owen Reed Lovejoy, ca. May 1911

William Colfax Graves to Owen Reed Lovejoy, April 25, 1914

Owen Reed Lovejoy to Jane Addams, March 28, 1911

Jane Addams et al. to William Howard Taft, December 30, 1911

Jane Addams et al. to Curtis Publishing Company Board of Directors, January 23, 1917

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, April 16, 1917

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Birth Date

1866-09-09

Death Date

1961-06-29

Birthplace

Jamestown, Michigan

Biographical Text

Owen R. Lovejoy was raised in a farming community in rural Michigan, where he sustained a serious injury to his arm tending a machine in a Michigan factory. In 1891, he earned a Bachelor's degree from Albion College, and three years later completed a Master's degree at the school. He entered the Methodist ministry later that year, holding pastorates in Michigan and New York. In 1902, he went to Pennsylvania to observe conditions related to the United Mine Workers Coal Strike. The suffering and injustices faced by the anthracite coal miners and their families changed the course of his life.

In 1904, the National Child Labor Committee commissioned Lovejoy to survey the child labor conditions in the Pennsylvania coal fields, and later that same year he became an assistant secretary of the organization. Lovejoy served as the General Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee from 1907 to 1926. He was also the president of the National Conference of Social Work in 1920. He was a nationally prominent leader in the movement to establish child labor laws, and his work earned him the title the "children's statesman."

He married Jennie Campbell in 1892, and the couple had five children, but only two sons survived to adulthood. Lovejoy's wife died in 1929, and he married Kate Drake in 1937. They settled on a farm in Biglerville, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1961.