Hart, Hastings Hornell (1851-1932)

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Jane Addams to Hastings Hornell Hart, August 25, 1905

Jane Addams to Ann Harper, February 19, 1908

Kate Waller Barrett to Jane Addams, December 21, 1911

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, January 18, 1915

Lecture to the Alabama Conference of Social Workers, March 26, 1922 (excerpt)

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Ann Crawford

I am H. H. Hart's great-grand-daughter. A minor correction to the biography: His third marriage, to Josephine, was in 1902. I know this because I wear the wedding ring he gave her, inscribed "Hastings to Josephine Aug 4, 1902"

Cathy Moran Hajo

Hi Ann - Thanks so much for getting in touch! It looks like we got the wrong date from the Illinois Biographical Directory, but I think your source trumps that! I've corrected the entry. Would you be willing to share a photograph of him for this bio? -- Cathy

Birth Date

1851-12-14

Death Date

1932-05-09

Birthplace

Brookfield, OH

Biographical Text

Hastings Hornell Hart was an American social reformer who work on prison reform. As Secretary of the Minnesota Board of Corrections and Charities, Hart wrote its first report to the state's legislature after touring all 55 prisons in the state. Hart held the position for 15 years, and during that time was elected President of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections in 1893. Hart later served as the President of the American Prison Association and as American Vice President of the International Prison Congress before passing in 1932.

Hart married three times. His first wife was Mary Almanda Prosser to whom he was married from 1880 till her death in 1881, just days after giving birth to a son, William Prosser. Hart then married Laura Eveline Love in 1886 and had four children. She died in 1901. In 1902, Hart married his third wife, Josephine Mary Newton, with whom he had two more children. Hart died in 1932.

Occupation

Child welfare activist

Penologist

Social reform activist

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People

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Sciancalepore, Victoria

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1905

Bibliography and Links

"Dr. Hart, Noted Penologist, Dies in White Plains". The Hartford Courant. May 11, 1932: 4.

"Dr. Hastings Hart, Penologist, is Dead". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 10, 1932: 15.

Find a Grave

Hannan, Caryn. Illinois Biographical Dictionary. Hamburg: State Historical Publications, 2008. pp. 320-321.

Hansan, Dr. John E. "Hastings Hornell Hart (1851-1932): Prison Authority, Children’s Advocate and President the National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1893". The Social Welfare History Project.

Social Networks and Archival Context

Citation

“Hart, Hastings Hornell (1851-1932),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed December 7, 2023, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1499.