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Starr, Ellen Gates

LC control no.n 91039723
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Personal name headingStarr, Ellen Gates
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Birth date1859-03-19
Death date1940-02-10
Field of activityBookbinding
Found inNUCMC data from Swarthmore College Peace Collection for Addams, J. Papers, 1838- (Ellen Gates Starr; correspondent)
Ellen Gates Starr : her later years, c2010: page vi (Ellen Starr, co-founder with Jane Addams of the Chicago Settlement, died in convent at 81, per New York times obituary, Feb. 11, 1940)
Notable American Women, 1607-1950, 1971 (Starr, Ellen Gates, Mar. 19, 1859-Feb. 10, 1940, settlement worker, b. Lacona, Ill.)
University of Chicago English Language Institute website, viewed on July 18, 2024: "Binding not only a Community: Bookbinding at Hull-House" (Among many activities, bookbinding was implemented by the silent co-founder of the Hull-House settlement Ellen G. Starr, after she had experienced the craft in England in 1897 and 1899 with the famous bookbinder Thomas J. Cobden-Sanderson)
   <https://voices.uchicago.edu/findingchicago/2021/09/15/binding-not-only-a-community-bookbinding-at-hull-house/>