Robins, Margaret Dreier (1868-1945)

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American Committee for the Relief of Russian Women and Children

Illinois Equal Suffrage Association

Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs

National Women's Trade Union League (NWTUL)

New York Association for Household Research

Jane Addams to Graham Taylor, September 19, 1902

Jane Addams to Raymond Robins, June 12, 1905

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, February 3, 1906

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Jane Addams to Agnes Nestor, January 24, 1907

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 24, 1907

Ellen Martin Henrotin to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Jane Addams et al. to Members of the American Association for Labor Legislation, October 30, 1908

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, November 9, 1908

Irene Osgood to Jane Addams, November 19, 1908

Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, November 10, 1911

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 27, 1911

Abigail (Abba) Bass to Jane Addams, July 1912

Voting Reminder, ca. August 1912

Samuel McCune Lindsay to George Foster Peabody, September 13, 1912

Anna R. B. Lindsay to Jane Addams, January 10, 1913

Suggestions for Advisory Committee Membership, Progressive Service Committee, January 28, 1913

Jane Addams to Raymond Robins, December 28, 1914

Jane Addams to Raymond Robins, January 13, 1915

Jane Addams to Alice Henry, February 18, 1915

Women to Confer on Plans to Further Lasting Peace, ca. October 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Samuel Northrup Harper, June 3, 1918

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, January 4, 1919

Jane Addams to Alice Thacher Post, January 9, 1919

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, September 1919

Relief for Russian Women and Children, 1920

Katherine Sophie Dreier to Jane Addams, February 22, 1920

Editha Caroline Phelps to Jane Addams, April 25, 1921

Margaret Grace Bondfield to Jane Addams, May 5, 1921

Secretary of Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, May 10, 1921

Maude Slade Odell to Jane Addams, November 25, 1921

Maude Slade Odell to Jane Addams, November 26, 1921

The Laura Dainty Pelham Memorial, ca. 1924

Tentative outline of WILPF International Summer School Program, January 18, 1924

Reminiscence on Theodore Roosevelt, May 1925 (fragment)

Reminiscence about Theodore Roosevelt, May 18, 1925

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, October 25, 1906

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, February 18, 1907

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Jane Addams et al. to Dear Sir, [October 15, 1909]

Progressive Party Questionnaire, ca. August 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, September 7, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, September 19, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Clara B. Arthur, September 20, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, September 30, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Frances Alice Kellor. October 9, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, October 16, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, October 17, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, October 31, 1912

Checklist of States, October 31, 1912

Progressive Party Chairman, October 31, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, November 5, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins and Ellida P. Bentley to Jane Addams, November 26, 1912

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 18, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Louis Freeland Post, October 18, 1913

Summary of Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 19, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Emmeline Pankhurst, October 19, 1913

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, February 25, 1915

Address to the International Congress of Working Women, October 31, 1919

John Rayborn to Jane Addams and Margaret Dreier Robins, January 27, 1908

John Bertram Andrews to Jane Addams, November 22, 1910

Jane Addams to Margaret Dreier Robins, December 26, 1911

Jane Addams to Margaret Dreier Robins, September 1912

Mary Rozet Smith to Margaret Dreier Robins, September 15, 1912

Clara B. Arthur to Maragret Dreier Robins, September 23, 1912

Jane Addams et al. to Raymond and Margaret Dreier Robins, November 13, 1912

Lucia Osbourne Ford Rutter to Margaret Dreier Robins, November 29, 1912.

Secretary to Jane Addams to Margaret Dreier Robins, January 25, 1915

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

Jane Addams to Margaret Dreier Robins, October 15, 1917

Jane Addams to Margaret Dreier Robins, July 21, 1918

Jane Addams to Margaret Dreier Robins, February 26, 1924

Jane Addams to Margaret Dreier Robins, February 9, 1925

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Birth Date

1868-09-06

Death Date

1945-02-21

Birthplace

Brooklyn, New York

Biographical Text

Margaret Dreier Robins was privately educated due to her parents believing that the arts were neglected in traditional education. While a teenager, she suffered from ailments which caused her to become depressed and physically weak. When Robins was nineteen she performed charity work at Brooklyn Hospital, where she met social reformer Josephine Shaw Lowell, who helped her join the Woman's Municipal League. Robins founded the New York Association for Household Research with Francis Kellor, which provided lodging and placement for women domestic workers. In 1904 Robins joined the Women's Trade Union League, and she served as the president of its New York chapter in 1905 and of its Chicago chapter from 1907 to 1914. She later served as the organization's national treasurer, and 1907 she was elected the national organization's president. As president, Robins helped organize women into unions, educate women workers, advocate for progressive legislation, and opened a Training School for Women in order to educate women about leadership and organization skills. She and her husband ran a settlement house in Chicago as well. She served on the executive board of the Chicago Federation of Labor after 1908, and in 1915 was appointed to Illinois' unemployment commission.

Robins married Raymond Robins in 1905. Robins died in 1945.

Addams and Robins often corresponded over the different topics that affected America. Both women were involved in different peace efforts and pacifism. Their common interests in social work kept them in contact.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Koger, Donald

Gender

Female

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1902

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“Robins, Margaret Dreier (1868-1945),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed October 5, 2023, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/829.