Today's Birthday
Julia Clifford Lathrop
1858–1932, American social worker and administrator, born in Rockford, Illinois, graduated Vassar, 1880.
Associated with Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago, she was active in civic work, aiding in founding (1899) the country's first juvenile court. From 1912 to 1921 she was head of the U.S. Children's Bureau.
Bibliography:
See biography by Jane Addams (1935).
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