Culver, Helen (1832-1925)

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Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, November 11, 1901

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, December 4, 1903

Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, December 5, 1903

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, December 7, 1903

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, June 1, 1904

Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, June 4, 1904

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, June 16, 1904

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 9, 1904

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, August 14, 1904

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, November 16, 1904

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, June 24, 1905

Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, June 27, 1905

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, November 24, 1905

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: Fifteen Years at Hull House (First of Three Installments), March 1906

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Hull-House 1889-1909, 1909

Martha Ellen French to Jane Addams, November 7, 1909

Jane Addams to Charles Hull Ewing, December 22, 1909

List of Hull-House Donors, March 18, 1910

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: Early Undertakings at Hull-House, June 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 6, 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 7, 1910

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 26, 1911

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, March 1, 1911

Martha Ellen French to Jane Addams, August 15, 1912

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, July 4, 1913

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, July 12, 1913

Chicago Association of Commerce Application for Endorsement, October 27, 1913

Jane Addams to Martha Ellen French, March 30, 1915

Application for Endorsement, April 1915

Jane Addams to Martha Ellen French, June 19, 1916

John Julius Halsey to Jane Addams, July 28, 1918

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, November 6, 1918

Jane Addams to Mary Everts Ewing, December 25, 1918

Jane Addams to Charles Hull Ewing, December 26, 1918

Jane Addams to Helen Fisher Peck, December 11, 1919

Jane Addams to Charles Hull Ewing, April 9, 1920

Jane Addams to Mary Everts Ewing, December 18, 1920

William Isaac Thomas to Jane Addams, August 1, 1922

William Isaac Thomas to Jane Addams, August 9, 1922

Charles Hull Ewing to Jane Addams, September 15, 1922

Charles Hull Ewing to Jane Addams, October 10, 1922

Charles Hull Ewing to Jane Addams, October 13, 1922

Charles Hull Ewing to Jane Addams, November 9, 1922

Jane Addams to Mary Everts Ewing, December 2, 1922

Charles Hull Ewing to Jane Addams, September 15, 1923

Jane Addams to Mary Everts Ewing, December 6, 1923

Jane Addams to Charles Hull Ewing, December 16, 1923

Jane Addams to Mary Everts Ewing, December 20, 1923

Donors to the Special International Fund, March 1924

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1832-03-23

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1925-08-19

Birthplace

Little Valley, NY

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Helen Culver was an American real-estate developer and philanthropist. She graduated from the Randolph Academy 1852. In 1853, she created a private school in Sycamore, IL. She moved to Chicago in 1854 and worked as a teacher. During the Civil War she served as a nurse at a military hospital in Murfreesboro, TN. In 1868 she entered real estate, with her cousin Charles Hull. The pair made millions and Culver became a philanthropist. She is best known for donating Charles Hull's house to Jane Addams, establishing Hull-House, where she served on the board of Hull-House until 1898. Culver also funded a biology department at the University of Chicago. Culver died in 1925.