Dummer, Ethel Sturges (1866-1954)

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Jane Addams to Ethel S. Dummer, February 4, 1915

Illinois La Follette-Wheeler Campaign Committee to Jane Addams, et. al., October 8, 1924 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Ethel Sturges Dummer, January 14, 1925

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, May 3, 1920

William Isaac Thomas to Jane Addams, August 1, 1922

Charles Hull Ewing to Jane Addams, November 9, 1922

Science Tells Why Children Misbehave, January 16, 1926

Ethel Sturges Dummer to Jane Addams, November 17, 1922

Statement On Len Small, November 4, 1924

Ethel Sturges Dummer to Jane Addams, January 13, 1925

Ethel Sturges Dummer to Jane Addams, February 16, 1925

Mintzer, Ethel Dummer (1895-1938)

Merriam, Frances Dummer (1900-1993)

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Birth Date

1866-10-23

Death Date

1954-02-25

Birthplace

Chicago, IL

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Ethel Sturges Dummer was a philanthropist and social welfare activist. She attended Kirkland School and became involved with the Kirkland Alumnae Association after graduating. In 1905, she joined the National Child Labor Committee and the Chicago Juvenile Protective Association. In 1908, Dummer assisted in the founding of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, which later became the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Brown was also involved with the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute and El Retiro, a girls' detention home in Los Angeles. Dummer authored numerous books and prefaces, such as her autobiography Why I Think So - The Autobiography of an Hypothesis and Mary E. Boole: A Pioneer Student of the Unconscious.

Dummer married William Francis Dummer in 1888. They had four daughters together, and one son who died as a child. Dummer died in 1954.