Rosenwald, Augusta Nusbaum (1868-1929)

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Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Fourth) (1912)

American Committee for the Relief of Russian Women and Children

Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald to Jane Addams, November 21, 1916

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Birth Date

1868-12-27

Death Date

1929-05-23

Birthplace

Plattsburg, NY

Biographical Text

Augusta Rosenwald was born to German immigrant parents. She was a member of the South Side Women's Club, volunteered on the Women's Board of Michael Reese Hospital, and was on the national board of the Girls Scouts of America. Rosenwald and her husband donated to Jane Addams and Hull-House. In 1913 Rosenwald was brought before the Supreme Court for tax evasion on stocks in her husband's company, Sears-Roebuck & Co.

Rosenwald married Julius Rosenwald in 1880. They had five children together. Rosenwald died in 1929.

Occupation

Homemaker

Philanthropist

Woman suffrage activist

Source

Rosenwald, Julius: Family 1. The University of Chicago Photographic Archive

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DeLora, Renee

Duffany, Abi

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1912

Bibliography and Links

"Curcuit Judges Decide To Shut Off Grand Jury From Handling Tax Cases." The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois), November 12, 1914. p. 29-30.

"Death Takes Mrs. Julius Rosenwald." Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1929. p. 1.

Augusta N Rosenwald, 1920 United States Federal Census.

Augusta N. Rosenwald, Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947.

Diner, Hasia. "Biography of Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald, 1868-1929." Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920. Women and Social Movements in the Unites States, 1600-2000.

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Julius Rosenwald, Wikipedia

Citation

“Rosenwald, Augusta Nusbaum (1868-1929),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed August 21, 2025, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/4570.

Rosenwald, Augusta Nusbaum (1868-1929)

Item Relations

Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Fourth) (1912)

American Committee for the Relief of Russian Women and Children

Julius Rosenwald to Jane Addams, August 12, 1912

Jane Addams to Charles Phineas Schwartz, August 10, 1916

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, August 30, 1916

Minnie F. Low to Jane Addams, January 25, 1918

Oswald Garrison Villard to Jane Addams, October 11, 1919

Relief for Russian Women and Children, 1920

Jane Addams to Julius Rosenwald, May 22, 1920

Jane Addams to Amy Woods, March 13, 1924

Julius Rosenwald to Jane Addams, January 24, 1925

William Colfax Graves to Jane Addams, January 26, 1925

William Colfax Graves to William Forbush Byron, April 10, 1925

Jane Addams to Esther Loeb Kohn, July 29, 1926

Jane Addams to Ada Medora Yoder Hicks, July 15, 1927

Julius Rosenwald to Jane Addams, December 15, 1927

Jane Addams to Julius Rosenwald, April 7, 1928

Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald to Jane Addams, November 21, 1916

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