Beer, Mary "Polly" (1802-1877) Also known as: Bier, Mary Also known as: Behr, Mary

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Autobiographical Notes upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: A War Time Childhood, April 1910

Informal Address On The Life and Character Of Miss Jane Addams, May 19, 1925

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1802

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1877

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Pennsylvania

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Mary "Polly" Beer (also spelled Bier and Behr) was a domestic worker employed by the Weber and Addams families. She was hired as a young woman by George and Sarah Beaver Weber, Jane Addams' grandparents. She was the nurse of Sarah Weber Addams and her siblings. After the death of her employers in 1846, Beer worked for Margaret Weber, and then John Harrison Weber. After the death of Sarah Weber Addams, she worked in the Addams home in Cedarville. Beer died in 1877, with Jane Addams attending.