Cooke, Flora Juliette (1864-1953)

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Francis W. Parker School

WILPF International Summer School (1924)

Address to the Francis W. Parker School, March 27, 1907

Jane Addams to Florence Gottschalk Taussig, November 22, 1921

Association for Peace Education statement, ca. 1923

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Summer School Committee List, January 18, 1924

Jane Addams to Flora Juliette Cooke, November 6, 1914

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Flora Juliette Cooke, May 9, 1917

Jane Addams to Flora Juliette Cooke, November 14, 1918

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Flora Juliette Cooke, November 20, 1918

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Flora Juliette Cooke, November 29, 1918

Jane Addams to Flora Juliette Cooke, December 28, 1918

Flora Juliette Cooke to Eleanor Daggett Karsten, November 18, 1918

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Birth Date

1864-12-25

Death Date

1953-02-21

Birthplace

Bainbridge, OH

Biographical Text

Flora Cooke lost both of her parents at a young age. At sixteen she was adopted by Charles and Luella Miller Cooke. Cooke graduated from high school in the 1880s and then attended college. After graduating, she became a teacher, and she worked at a few small schools in Ohio, the Chicago Normal School, and the Chicago Institute, before becoming principal of the newly founded Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. Cooke was also the founder of the Chicago Woman's Club, and a founder and trustee of Roosevelt College. She retired in 1934.

Cook died in 1953.