Addams, Anna Hostetter Haldeman (1828-1919)

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Jane Addams to Anna Haldeman Addams, June 24, 1901

Jane Addams to Anna Haldeman Addams, December 22, 1903

Jane Addams to Anna Haldeman Addams, March 15, 1910

Jane Addams to Anna Haldeman Addams, June 30, 1910

Jane Addams to Anna Haldeman Addams, March 16, 1913

Jane Addams to Anna Haldeman Addams, August 10, 1913

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: Fifteen Years at Hull House (First of Three Installments), March 1906

Laura Shoemaker Addams to Jane Addams, June 11, 1907

Obituary for George B. Haldeman, ca. November 1909

Anna Marcet Haldeman to Jane Addams, July 14, 1910

Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman to Matthew A. Marvin, October 20, 1913

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 8, 1914

Jane Addams to Mary Fry, March 27, 1914

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, April 4, 1914

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, April 13, [1914]

Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman to Matthew B. Marvin, November 26, 1914

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman, March 28, 1915

Anna Marcet Haldeman to Jane Addams, April 1, 1915

Mary Rozet Smith to Anna Marcet Haldeman, April 4 & 5, 1915

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, July 29, 1915

Jane Addams to Mary Fry, August 4, 1915

Anna Marcet Haldeman to Jane Addams, August 15, 1915

Anna Marcet Haldeman to Jane Addams, January 30, 1916

Anna Marcet Haldeman to Jane Addams, February 3, 1916

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman, March 14, 1916

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman, March 19, 1916

Jane Addams to Mary Fry, May 12, 1916

Jane Addams to Mary Fry, May 29, 1916

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, June 2, 1916

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, August 23, 1916

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

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, May 27, 1917

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, August 7, 1917

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, September 5, 1917

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, January 1918

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, July 1918

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, July 8, 1918

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, July 16, 1918

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, September 21, 1918

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

Jane Addams to Mary Fry, May 27, 1919

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, May 27, 1919

Jane Addams to Esther Margaret Linn Hulbert, June 5, 1919

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, May 16, 1920

Jane C. McRae Craig to Jane Addams, December 31, 1924

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Birth Date

1828-08-12

Death Date

1919-04-23

Birthplace

Lancaster County, PA

Biographical Text

Anna Hostetter was the sixth of seven children. Her mother died 8 years later along with Anna's 3 year old sister of "brain fever". She was raised primarily by her eldest sister Susan and her husband George Bowman. At 14, Anna left school to become her sister's helper in household chores and caring for the Bowman children. Though she hated to abandon her education, she continued to self educate herself through books, lectures, plays, music, and traveling. While on a westward trip to Mount Carroll, Illinois with her older brothers, Anna met William J. Haldeman. The couple married soon after in 1847. Haldeman passed from tuberculosis in 1866. Anna then met John Huy Addams and married in 1868, lasting 13 years. After John Addams's death in 1881, Anna spent the rest of her life in Cedarville in the Addams home taking care of her son George. Hostetter outlived both her sons. She died in 1919, leaving all of her possessions and wealth to Anna Marcet Haldeman, as well as the use of her house to long time servant and friend Mary Fry.

Hostetter married William J. Haldeman on in 1847, They had four children, two of them living into adulthood. Her eldest, Henry, whom they frequently called "Harry", and youngest, George. William Haldeman died of tuberculosis in 1866. Anna married John Huy Addams, Jane Addams's father, in 1868. They did not have any children of their own.

Hostetter and Jane Addams's relationship was initially close. She taught Addams and her son, George, how to excel in life, instilling household responsibilities and culture into them. Addams was intensely watched over by Hostetter until she departed for Rockford Seminary. After Addams returned home from school, the pair embarked on a trip to Europe; Hostetter showed Addams the joys of opera and classical music. After leaving her home in Cedarville, Addams and Hostetter's relationship became strained. She blamed Jane for George's depression due to her leaving the family to start a settlement in Chicago. At this time, Jane had also declined a proposal of marriage from George, which seemed to upset him even more, angering Hostetter. Their relationship mended over time, and Hostetter came to understand and respect Addams's work at Hull-House.

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Homemaker

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Sciancalepore, Victoria

Davies, Ali

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1901

Bibliography and Links

Mary Lynn Bryan, ed. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 1, pp. 442-66.

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“Addams, Anna Hostetter Haldeman (1828-1919),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed October 5, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/436.