Woods, Eleanor Howard Bush (1873-1957)

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Eleanor Howard Bush Woods to Jane Addams, March 7, 1911

Eleanor Howard Bush Woods to Jane Addams, August 21, 1912

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, April 6, 1902

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, October 3, 1904

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, October 5, 1904

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, July 14, 1911

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Birth Date

1873-11-07

Death Date

1957

Birthplace

Staten Island, NY

Biographical Text

Eleanor Howard Bush Woods was the wife of Robert Archey Woods, who founded the South End House settlement, the first settlement house in Boston. She graduated from Smith College in 1896, where she was Class Secretary. In 1929, Woods wrote a biography of her husband, titled Robert A. Woods: Champion of Democracy. Woods was also involved in social work, having been on the committee that organized the first State Conference of Charities in Massachusetts, founded the South End Women's Club, a member of Boston's Federation of Women's Clubs, and founder of the Business Women's Club. She was involved in projects about lodging in the city. After her husband died, Woods moved to Los Angeles and ran a settlement house of her own.

Woods married Robert Archey Woods in 1902. Woods died in 1957.

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Settlement house resident

Social reform activist

Women's rights activist

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People

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Lichon, Sara Catherine

Gender

Female

First appears

1911

Bibliography and Links

Eleanor Howard Bush, Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915

Find a Grave

Robert Archery Woods, Your Dictionary

Smith College Alumni Register, 1913, page 7

Williams, Joyce E. and Vicky M. MacLean, Settlement Sociology in the Progressive Years: Faith, Science, and Reform, 2015, pages 193-195

Citation

“Woods, Eleanor Howard Bush (1873-1957),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed February 8, 2023, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/3181.