Anderson, Mary (1872-1964)

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Pan-Pacific Women's Conference (1928)

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Jane Addams to Edith Abbott, September 15, 1909

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, February 25, 1915

Provisional Program for the Quinquennial Meeting of the International Council of Women, ca. December 1924

Peace Groups Strife Renewed in Two Centers in Capitol, January 20, 1925

Pan-Pacific Conference, September 28, 1928

Julie Judd Swanzy to Jane Addams, November 13, 1928

Julie Judd Swanzy to Eleanor Mary Hinder, December 5, 1928

Alexander Hume Ford to Ethel Elizabeth Goodson Osborne, January 17, 1929

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

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

Mary Anderson to Jane Addams, June 29, 1929

Jane Addams to Mary Anderson, April 17, 1928

Jane Addams to Mary Anderson, June 5, 1929

Jane Addams to Mary Anderson, June 26, 1929

Jane Addams to Mary Anderson, July 6, 1929

Jane Addams to Mary Anderson, July 10, 1929

Jane Addams to Mary Anderson, July 27, 1929

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Birth Date

1872-08-27

Death Date

1964-01-29

Birthplace

Lidkoping, Sweden

Biographical Text

Mary Anderson was a Hull-House resident, a union president and later head of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. Born in Sweden, Mary immigrated to the U.S. in 1889 when she was sixteen. She worked as a shoemaker at Schwab's factory, and in 1893 she became the president of the all-women Boot Stitchers' Local 94. She also served as the union representative at the Chicago Federation of Labor meetings. Through Jane Addams, she became a member of the Women's Trade Union League, which she worked full time. In 1920 she became the first director of the Labor Department's Women's Bureau and worked to fight discrimination against women in labor.

Anderson died in 1964.