Jane Addams was the youngest of eight children born into a prosperous northern Illinois family of English-American descent which traced back to colonial Pennsylvania
jane was the youngest out of her siblings and later on jane never had kids.
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That summer, her father died unexpectedly from a sudden case of appendicitis. Each child inherited roughly $50,000 (equivalent to $1.52 million in 2016).
when her father passed she inherited a good amount of money and so did her siblings so that was very good for them.
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An advocate for world peace, and recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States, in 1931 Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
I find this very interesting and amusing for someone to be the first American woman to win the Nobel peace prize
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