Edith Abbott

(1876-1957) born in Grand Island. Social worker, educator, founder of journal Social Service Review, dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago until her retirement in 1942, honored posthumously by the City of Grand Island by naming new public library after her in 1974. Consult Lela B. Costin, Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott (Illinois University Press, 1983) and American National Biography, Vol 1 (Oxford University Press, 1999) 19-21.

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