Yarros, Rachelle Slobodinsky (1869-1946)

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American Committee for the Relief of Russian Women and Children

Hull-House

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Jane Addams to Edith Abbott, August 10, 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, November, 1910

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, December 14, 1910

Alice Hamilton to Mary Rozet Smith, April 22, 1915

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, July 18, 1917

Jane Addams to Sameul Northrup Harper, June 1, 1918

Samuel Northrup Harper to Jane Addams, June 16, 1918

Relief for Russian Women and Children, 1920

William Freeman Snow to Jane Addams, September 30, 1922

John P. Altgeld Biography Subscription List, ca. 1922

Jane Addams to Ida Campbell Mott-Smith Lovett, May 25, 1923

List of Names and Addresses, ca. March 12, 1924

Louis Freeland Post to Subscribers of the John P. Altgeld Biography, April 5, 1924

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

Louis J. Affelder to Jane Addams, June 2, 1925

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Birth Date

1869-05-15

Death Date

1946-03-17

Birthplace

Russia

Biographical Text

Rachelle Yarros was born to a wealthy Russian family and received the best education available. However, at the age of eighteen, she became involved with Nihilists and was forced to flee to America. Yarros worked in a sweatshop with other immigrants and refused financial help from her parents. Rachelle met her husband, fellow Russian immigrant Victor Yarros, in Boston, and he encouraged her to continue her studies. Yarros became the first woman to study at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston. She officially received her M.D. from Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia in 1893. Yarros then interned at New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston in 1894. The following year, she and Victor moved to Chicago and became residents at Hull-House. Here Yarros started a successful obstetrical and gynecological practice. She also worked as an instructor and professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Yarros was a strong supporter of birth control and sex education, and helped found the American Social Hygiene Association, the Illinois Birth Control League, and opened the first birth control clinic in Chicago. Yarros taught about and researched birth control throughout her life, becoming the only Professor of Social Hygiene at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1926. Yarros wrote a book, Modern Women and Sex, in 1933.

Yarros married Victor Yarros in 1894.

Occupation

Birth control activist

Physician

Professor

Source

Image from U.S. Passport Applications, 1922.

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Piper, Robert

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1906

Bibliography and Links

Find-a-Grave

Inventory, Rachelle and Victor Yarros Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago

SNAC

Citation

“Yarros, Rachelle Slobodinsky (1869-1946),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed November 29, 2023, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/4032.