Guiteau, Flora (1854-1936)

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Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, July 23, 1905

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, July 12, 1913

Jane Addams to Myra Harriet Reynolds Linn, October 30, 1916

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, ca. April 26, 1919 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldman-Julius, January 3, 1922

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, ca. June 1922 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Dorothy Detzer, November 22, 1926

Flora B. Guiteau to Jane Addams, November 30, 1910.

Flora B. Guiteau to Jane Addams, 1912

Flora Guiteau to Jane Addams, September 25, 1923

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Birth Date

1854-07-03

Death Date

1936-05-01

Birthplace

Freeport, IL

Biographical Text

Flora Guiteau was a friend of Jane Addams'. Guiteau's family was close to Jane Addams' family, as her father was the head cashier at the Freeport bank owned by Jane Addams' father. However, her stepbrother, Charles Guiteau, was the assassin of President James Garfield, and Jane Addams was one of the few people who remained supportive of Guiteau during her family's difficult time. But, she overcame the difficulties brought on by her brother's actions, and she became a prominent and involved member of her hometown, being a leader of many Freeport organizations and a member of most. She was the director of the Northern Illinois Association and the president of the Freeport Woman's Club and a member of the Freeport Shakespeare Society and other literary societies. She worked as a teacher at Freeport High School and later as a freelance writer for the Freeport Journal and the Freeport Journal Standard. She was also a musician.

Guiteau died in 1936.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1905

Bibliography and Links

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 2: Venturing into Usefulness, 1881-88, pages xxxi-xxxii, 6-7, 20, 27-28

University of Chicago Quarterly Calendar, Volume 4, Issue 14, pages 62, 89

Citation

“Guiteau, Flora (1854-1936),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 26, 2024, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1486.