Linn, James Weber (1876-1939)

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Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 3, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 14, 1901

Jane Addams to Esther Margaret Linn, March 18, 1901

Jane Addams, financial statement from sale of Storm Lake property, March 18, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, May 21, 1901

Macmillan Company to Jane Addams, August 10, 1901

George Platt Brett Sr. to Jane Addams, August 20, 1901

Jane Addams to George Platt Brett Sr., August 26, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 11, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, November 28, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, December 10, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, January 26, 1902

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, January 31, 1902

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 11, 1902

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, March 11, 1902

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, March 24, 1902

Jane Addams to Unknown, ca. April 6, 1902

Statement on Train Wreck, May 12, 1902

Robert Herrick to Jane Addams, May 19, 1902

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, December 27, 1903

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, February 7, 1904

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 24, 1904

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, March 1904

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 13, 1904

Jane Addams to Clara Landsberg, August 29, 1905

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, January 6, 1906

Jane Addams to Horace Spencer Fiske, December 27, 1906

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, September 12, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, December 19, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, January 10, 1909

Jane Addams to Mary Howland Linn, April 11, 1909

Jane Addams to Clara Landsberg, September 10, 1910

Flora B. Guiteau to Jane Addams, November 30, 1910.

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 6, 1910

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, April 14, 1912

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

Jane Addams to Stanley Ross Linn, December 3, 1917

Jane Addams to Stanley Ross Linn, February 1918

Jane Addams to Myra Harriet Reynolds Linn, April 20, 1918

Jane Addams to Myra Harriet Reynolds Linn, August 18, 1918

Jane Addams to Myra Harriet Reynolds Linn, August 26, 1918

Jane Addams to Myra Harriet Reynolds Linn, September 5, 1918

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

Jane Addams to Esther Margaret Linn Hulbert, May 2, 1919

Jane Addams to Stanley Ross Linn, February 13, 1920

Janet Ayer Fairbank to Jane Addams, August 11, 1920

Jane Addams to Myra Harriet Reynolds Linn, November 25, 1920

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, November 30, 1920

Mary Rozet Smith to Esther Margaret Linn Hulbert, June 26-27, 1923

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James Weber Linn to Jane Addams, April 28, 1901

James Weber Linn to Jane Addams, June 14, 1901

James Weber Linn to Jane Addams, June 23, 1901

James Weber Linn to Jane Addams, May, 1908

James Weber Linn to Jane Addams, September 20, 1912

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Birth Date

1876-05-11

Death Date

1939-07-16

Birthplace

Winnebago, IL

Biographical Text

James Weber Linn was a professor, author, and member of the Illinois legislature. Linn taught English at the University of Chicago for forty years and published many articles, books, and novels during this time. He also frequently contributed to other collected works, compilations, and textbooks. Linn was also heavily involved in the democratic party in Illinois. Before he was a professor, he worked for the Chicago Record.

Linn was married to Mary Howland. The couple had two daughters. Linn died in 1939.

Linn was the nephew of Jane Addams. The two were close, as many of her personal documents, and documents were written about her, were left to him after her death. Linn published a biography of Jane Addams, which he started to write before her death in 1935.