Blaine, Anita McCormick (1866-1954)

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American Committee for the Relief of Russian Women and Children

Chicago Board of Education, School Management Committee

Chicago City Homes Association

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 17, 1901

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 28, 1901

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, March 21, 1901

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, March 22, 1901

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 1, 1901

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 29, 1901

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 6, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 17, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 12, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 18, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 30, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 28, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 24, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 27, 1902

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 6, 1903

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 23, 1903

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 20, 1903

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 25, 1903

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, March 10, 1904

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, March 29, 1904

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 4, 1904

Harriet A. Rice to Anita McCormick Blaine, August 31, 1904

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 3, 1904

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 15, 1904

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 21, 1904

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 5, 1904

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 11, 1904

Mary Rozet Smith to Anita McCormick Blaine, July 10, 1905

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, August 20, 1905

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, August 25, 1905

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, October 30, 1905

Clara Landsberg to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 23, 1905

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 19, 1905

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, [December 26, 1905]

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, [1906?]

Samuel McCune Lindsay to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 7, 1906

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 16, 1906

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 23, 1906

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, July 21, 1906

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 14, 1906

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 24, 1907

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 5, 1907

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, March 30, 1907

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, September 4, 1907

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 7, 1908

Jane Addams to Blanche Booth, December 21, 1908

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, March 3, 1909

Jane Addams and Harriet Eliza Merriam Van Der Vaart to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 1, 1909

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 21, 1909

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Jane Addams to Raymond Robins, September 9, 1903

Jane Addams to Carroll D. Wright, December 10, 1903

Jane Addams to Robert A. Woods, December 10, 1903

Jane Addams to Robert Weeks DeForest, December 10, 1903

Edgar Gardner Murphy to Jane Addams, January 18, 1904

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, February 1, 1904

Jane Addams to A. G. Hammond, August 8, 1904

George E. Hooker to Raymond Robins, October 13, 1904

Livingston Wells Fargo to Jane Addams, November 25, 1904

William Mackintire Salter to Jane Addams, November 29, 1904

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, July 2, 1906

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, October 3, 1906

Jane Addams to Robert A. Woods, November 23, 1906

Jane Addams to W. E. B. Du Bois, January 26, 1907

Jane Addams to Mr. Naton, April 11, 1907

Otto Carl Schneider to Jane Addams, June 8, 1908

List of Hull-House Donors, March 18, 1910

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, March 13, 1911

Jane Addams to Mr. McCahill, March 23, 1911

Jane Addams to John Sherman Hoyt, March 24, 1911

Jane Addams to John Sherman Hoyt, March 28, 1911

Caroline Miles Hill to Jane Addams, April 11, 1911

Jane Addams to Niels Juul, April 15, 1911

Statement on Illinois State Senate Bill 233 (Child Actor Bill), April 25, 1911

Address to Open the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, May 11, 1911

Melville E. Stone Jr. to Jane Addams, May 11, 1911

William Kent to Jane Addams, May 11, 1911

Jane Addams to William Kent, May 15, 1911

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, May 26, 1911

Katharine Coman to Jane Addams, November 17, 1911

Edward Thomas Devine to Jane Addams, May 23, 1912

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, September 8, 1912

Edward Thomas Devine to Jane Addams, September 11, 1912

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

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, November 23, 1912

Katharine Coman to Jane Addams, June 26, 1913

Katharine Coman to Jane Addams, December 9, 1913

Charles E. Merriam to Jane Addams, February 11, 1914

Oswald Garrison to Villard to Jane Addams, June 12, 1914 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Emmons Blaine Jr., March 10, 1917

James Hayden Tufts to Jane Addams, May 1, 1917

Carl Beck to Jane Addams, December 2, 1919

Relief for Russian Women and Children, 1920

James Grover McDonald to Jane Addams, June 12, 1920

Jane Addams to James Grover McDonald, June 21, 1920

James Grover McDonald to Jane Addams, June 22, 1920

James Grover McDonald to Jane Addams, April 2, 1921

Jane Addams to Amy Woods, March 13, 1924

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 17, 1924

List of contributors to the Barnett Memorial Fellowship

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Raymond Robins to Thomas S. Ainge, December 28, 1903

Anita McCormick Blaine to Jane Addams, June 1905

Jane Addams et al. to Bryan Lathrop, December 15, 1905

Anita McCormick Blaine to Jane Addams, December 21, 1905

Jane Addams et al. to Unknown, January 20, 1906

Announcement of the Eighteenth Annual Competition for the Victor F. Lawson Medals, March 26, 1906

Anita McCormick Blaine to Jane Addams, May 28, 1914

Anita McCormick Blaine to Louise de Koven Bowen, May 28, 1914

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 13, 1913

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Birth Date

1866-07-04

Death Date

1954-02-12

Birthplace

Manchester, VT

Biographical Text

Anita Eugenie McCormick was the daughter of Cyrus Hall and Nettie Fowler McCormick. Her father was the inventor of the reaper, and the family held considerable wealth and influence in Chicago. Anita McCormick took on many family responsibilities after the death of her father in 1884, and her family was determined that she retain control over her fortune after marriage. She married Emmons Blaine, a railroad administrator from a well-known political family and had a son, Emmons Blaine, Jr. Her husband died suddenly in 1892, leaving Anita McCormick Blaine a widow at 26.

Blaine took an interest in education as she managed her son's schooling, and she worked with Colonel Francis Parker, an innovative Chicago educator. She helped found the Chicago Institute (later becoming the University of Chicago's School of Education), which trained teachers, and two other schools, one which was aimed to offer free education to poor children. Blaine was named to the Chicago Board of Education in 1905.

Blaine broadened her philanthropic interests, joining the social reformers centered around Jane Addams and Hull-House, and she used her wealth and influence to impact Chicago. Blaine was an adherent of scientific philanthropy, and sought data, investigations, and social reform legislation. Blaine became an influential philanthropist, taking leadership roles at the Chicago Board of Charities and the United Charities. With Addams, she created the City Homes Association to work on securing housing for the poor.

Blaine supported Addams' work for labor reform and in defense of striking workers and lobbying for the eight-hour day. She also supported Addams' efforts for peace. After losing her son in the 1918 influenza epidemic that followed World War I, Blaine became a dedicated supporter of the League of Nations and after World War II supported the movement toward world governance and worked with the United Nations.

When Anita Blaine died in 1954, she had donated over ten million dollars to charities, and in her will she left the bulk of her estate to the New World Foundation Trust.

Occupation

Educator

Philanthropist

Source

Picture: Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1907, p. 55.

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People

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Sciancalepore, Victoria

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1901

Bibliography and Links

"Anita McCormick Blaine," "Building for a Long Future: The University of Chicago and Its Donors, 1889-1930," website.

Anita McCormick Blaine papers, finding aid, Wisconsin State Historical Society.

Barbara Dobschuetz, "Anita McCormick Eugenie Blaine," in Women Building Chicago: 1790-1990, ed. Rima Lumin Schultz and Adele Hast (2001), pp.86-88.

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Citation

“Blaine, Anita McCormick (1866-1954),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 11, 2024, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/60.