Riddle, Edith Gillette Ward (1865-?)

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Hull-House

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Mary Thorn Lewis Gannett to Jane Addams, January 25, 1907

Jane Addams to Stanley Ross Linn, May 19, 1921

Hull-House Residents, ca. April 1930

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Birth Date

1865

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St. Charles, IL

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Edith Gillette Ward Riddle was a graduate of Vassar College, having graduated in 1898. After graduating college, she began to work as a settlement worker in 1905, and from 1906 to 1908 she worked at Hull-House. She also worked at Goodrich House. Afterward, she bought a farmhouse and used it as a home for boys living in poverty. Riddle had also been a worker for the Children's Bureau of the Child Labor Department.

Riddle married Joseph B. Riddle in 1906. They had at least three children, Joseph, Florence and David.