Linn, Mary Catherine Addams (1845-1894)

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Jane Addams to Charles Hammond Blatchford, February 17, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, September 10, 1907

Anna Marcet Haldeman to Jane Addams, April 1, 1915

Jane Addams to Myra Harriet Reynolds Linn, December 3, 1916

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, January 1, 1922

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, ca. April-May 1922

Interview with the Wisconsin State Journal, May 7, 1922

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 14, 1901

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Birth Date

1845-06-25

Death Date

1894-07-06

Birthplace

Cedarville, IL

Biographical Text

Mary Catherine Addams was Jane Addams' oldest sibling, born on June 25, 1845 to John Huy Addams and Sarah Weber Addams. She attended two schools in her youth, and hoped to continue her education, but after the death of her mother in 1863 she took on the task of running the Addams household. When her father married to Anna Hostetter Haldeman in November 1868, Mary Catherine's role changed and she began to feel isolated. She decided to attended Rockford Female Seminary for a semester. There she met her future husband, John Manning Linn. Frequent childbearing impacted Addams' health, and in 1894 she was enrolled in the Pennoyer Sanitarium in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Mary Catherine Addams Linn died of a cerebral hemorrhage on July 6, 1894.

Addams married John Manning Linn on November 9, 1871. They had six children: John Addams Linn, James Weber Linn, Esther Margaret Linn, Stanley Ross Linn, Mary Addams Linn and Charles Hodge Linn (the last two died in childhood).

Occupation

Homemaker

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Picture: Mary Catherine Addams, Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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People

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Edited By

Hajo, Cathy Moran

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1901

Bibliography and Links

Mary Lynn Bryan, ed., The Selected Papers of Jane Addams. Vol. 1. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Citation

“Linn, Mary Catherine Addams (1845-1894),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 26, 2024, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/96.