Hill, Mary Dorsey Anderson (1868-1958)

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section

Mary Dorsey Anderson Hill to Jane Addams, January 23, 1901

Jane Addams to Vida Dutton Scudder, April 25, 1900

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Membership List, April 9, 1920

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Birth Date

1868-12-08

Death Date

1958-12-05

Birthplace

Maysville, KY

Biographical Text

Mary Dorsey Anderson graduated from Vassar College in 1898 and worked as a teacher in Louisville from 1890-1896. She became the head resident at the Neighborhood Settlement House in Louisville, KY in 1896 until her marriage. She then moved to New York City in 1901, and worked at the West Side Neighborhood House from 1902-1903, and the Alumnae Settlement House from 1904-1906. Anderson later moved to San Diego and became a teacher.

Anderson married Archibald Alexander Hill in 1901. They had one son, Archibald Anderson Hill. Anderson died in 1958.

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Settlement house resident

Teacher

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Female

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1901

Bibliography and Links

Fournier-Bandish Family tree, accessed via Ancestry.com

Kentucky, Marriage Records, 1852-1914

Mary A Hill, 1920 United States Federal Census

Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915

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“Hill, Mary Dorsey Anderson (1868-1958),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 27, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/42.