Nestor, Agnes (1878-1948)

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Chicago World Court Committee

Alice Hamilton to Agnes Nestor, July 12, 1904

Elsie M. Smith Lucas to Agnes Nestor, December 1, 1906

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, January 24, 1907

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, March 29, 1909

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, April 9, 1909

Jane Addams et al. to Walter Lowrie Fisher, March 23, 1911

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, April 16, 1912

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, February 27, 1928

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

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

Summary of Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 19, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Emmeline Pankhurst, October 19, 1913

Agnes Nestor to Margaret F. Leach, October 1, 1917

Agnes Nestor to Miss Robinson, September 11, 1919

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Birth Date

1878-06-24

Death Date

1948-12-28

Birthplace

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Biographical Text

Agnes Nestor was the founder and leader of the International Glove Workers Union, holding positions such as national vice president, secretary-treasurer, general president, and director of research and education. She was a member and later President of the Women's Trade Union League. Nestor worked for Chicago's Eisendrath Glove Company as a teenager, which had many unjust practices, such as having employees pay a machine rental fee. This inspired Nestor to lead a successful strike of women workers at the company in 1902. She also helped organize unions in other industries, and worked as an activist for issues such as child labor, minimum wage, maternity health, the eight hour workday, and women suffrage. Nestor died in 1948

Occupation

Labor activist

Women's rights activist

Source

Agnes Nestor. March 7, 1914. Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division , Washington D.C.

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People

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1906

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“Nestor, Agnes (1878-1948),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed August 2, 2025, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/545.

Nestor, Agnes (1878-1948)

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Chicago World Court Committee

Alice Hamilton to Agnes Nestor, July 12, 1904

Elsie M. Smith Lucas to Agnes Nestor, December 1, 1906

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, January 24, 1907

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, March 29, 1909

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, April 9, 1909

Jane Addams et al. to Walter Lowrie Fisher, March 23, 1911

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, April 16, 1912

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, February 27, 1928

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, General Committee List, March 1911

Samuel McCune Lindsay to George Foster Peabody, September 13, 1912

Jane Addams to Cleo Murtland, March 19, 1914

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, February 25, 1915

Address to the Woman's City Club of Chicago, January 29, 1917

Jane Addams to Alice Thacher Post, January 6, 1919

Jane Addams to Alice Thacher Post, January 9, 1919

List of Names and Addresses, ca. March 12, 1924

Comments on the Illinois Women's Eight Hour Bill, May 15, 1925