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Together from (before) 1903 to 1963: 60 years.
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963)
Doris Fielding Reid (September 4, 1895 - January 16, 1973)
Margaret Hamilton (June 13, 1871 – July 6, 1969) was an educator and headmistress at Bryn Mawr School.
Margaret Hamilton was born on June 13, 1871, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Gertrude Pond (1840–1917) and Montgomery Hamilton (1843–1909). Her older sister Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) was an internationally-known author who was one of the most renowned classicist of her era; Alice Hamilton (1869–1970) was one of the founders of industrial medicine; Norah Hamilton (1873–1945) was an artist; Arthur Hamilton (1886–1967) was a writer, professor of Spanish, and assistant dean for foreign students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Alice says of Margaret "Margaret is two and half years younger than I, but because she was the only one of us who had ill health as a child, she did not seem really younger."
She grew up in Fort Wayne, and worked in its first library, the Women's Reading Room.[1]
Hamilton attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1890. From 1893 to 1897 she attended Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology and Chemistry in 1897. She was elected European fellow for the academic year 1897-8. In 1899 Hamilton studied biology in Paris and Munich and, back in the United States, anatomy at Johns Hopkins University. Her target to become a physician was interrupted when she was involved in a carriage accident while at Johns Hopkins. She was severely injured and remained slightly lame for the rest of her life.
In 1900 Hamilton was back home to Fort Wayne, where she took care of her younger 4-year-old brother, Quintus, and then joined the faculty at Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, as Science teacher. In 1907 she became Associate Head Mistress to her sister Edith. From 1910 to 1933 she was Head of the Primary School. She was Headmistress of the entire School from 1933 to 1935.[2]
Clara Landsberg was a close college and longtime family friend, studied in Europe with Margaret Hamilton for a summer in 1899 and was to become her lifetime companion. The daughter of a Reform rabbi from Rochester, New York, and a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Landsberg became a resident at Hull House, where she was in charge of its evening education programs and shared a room with Alice Hamilton. Landsberg eventually left Hull House to teach Latin at Bryn Mawr School, where Edith Hamilton was headmistress. Margaret Hamilton also became a teacher at Bryn Mawr School and took over as headmistress before retiring in 1935. Alice Hamilton considered Landsberg part of the Hamilton family, one remarked, "I could not think of a life in which Clara did not have a great part, she has become part of my life almost as if she were one of us."[3]
The Hamilton sisters, their mother, Edith's companion, Doris Fielding Reid, and Landsberg, spent their retirement years in Hadlyme, Connecticut, at the house they purchased in 1916. The house was near Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, that all four of the Hamilton sisters had attended.[4]
Margaret Hamilton was the head of the household and managed the finances. With her sister Alice, she traveled to Morocco, Spain and Guatemala.
Hamilton died on July 6, 1969. She is buried with Landsberg at Cove Cemetery in Hadlyme, Connecticut, in the same cemetery as Hamilton's mother (Gertrude) and her sisters (Alice, Norah, and Edith), and Edith's life partner, Doris Fielding Reid.[5]
Clara Landsberg (1873 – April 10, 1966) was an American educator. She was the leader of the adult education programme at Hull House, and was a close collaborator of Nobel laureate Jane Addams. She later taught at Bryn Mawr School with her lifelong friend Margaret Hamilton.
Clara Landsberg was born in 1873, the daughter of Max Landsberg, a German-American Reform rabbi from Rochester, New York, and Miriam Isengarten, a good friend of Susan B. Anthony.[6] [7]
She was one of the first graduates of Bryn Mawr College, where she was a classmate and friend of Margaret Hamilton. She attended the Sorbonne as a student of German in the winter 1898-1899, while Margaret Hamilton studied Biology and Norah Hamilton Art).[8] Landsberg was to become Margaret Hamilton's lifetime companion.[9]
After the Sorbonne, while Hamilton was a student at Johns Hopkins University, Landsberg became the Reference Librarian at the Reynolds' Library, Rochester, New York.
In 1899 Clara Landsberg became a resident at Hull House, where she was in charge of the adult education (evening school) programs from 1900 to 1920,[10] and shared a room with Alice Hamilton. Landsberg and Ethel Dewey interviewed each new student, and each was carefully placed according to his attainments and later was graded upon reports made by the teachers.[11] For the most part of her time at Hull House, Landsberg taught German at the University School for Girls. Hilda S. Polacheck, a Polish immigrant, was later to said about Landsberg: "She opened new vistas in reading for me. In her class we would be assigned a book, which we were to read during the week and then discuss the following session of the class. The class met once a week. I not only read the assigned books but every book I could borrow. Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, and many others now become my friends. The daily monotony of making cuffs was eased by thinking of these books and looking forward to evenings at Hull House."[12]
In her 1912 ''Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes'', Jane Addams said she was grateful to Landsberg "for the making of the index and for many other services".[13]
In May 1914, Landsberg, together with Louise DeKoven Bowen, joined Addams and Mary Rozet Smith in Naples, and the four women travelled together to Sicily and Rome. Landsberg and Smith sailed back to the United States in June.[14] In 1933, together with Alice Hamilton, went on a trip to Germany to protest the discharge of Jewish doctors.
Landsberg eventually left Hull House to teach Latin at Bryn Mawr School, where Edith Hamilton was headmistress. Margaret Hamilton also became a teacher at Bryn Mawr School, science, and took over as headmistress in 1933 before retiring in 1935.
Alice Hamilton considered Clara Landsberg part of the Hamilton family, one remarked, "I could not think of a life in which Clara did not have a great part, she has become part of my life almost as if she were one of us."[15]
The Hamilton sisters, their mother, Edith's companion, Doris Fielding Reid, and Landsberg, spent their retirement years in Hadlyme, Connecticut, at the house they purchased in 1916.[16]
Landsberg died on April 10, 1966, and is buried with Margaret Hamilton at Cove Cemetery in Hadlyme, Connecticut, in the same cemetery as Hamilton's mother (Gertrude) and her sisters (Alice, Norah, and Edith), and Edith's life partner, Doris Fielding Reid.[17] [18]
The Clara Landsberg papers consisting of correspondence addressed to Clara Landsberg are preserved at the Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Katherine Hamilton (September 4, 1863 - February 5, 1932) was a women's suffrage activist and a cousin and intimate friend of Alice Hamilton.
Katherine Hamilton was born on September 4, 1863, the daughter of Andrew Holman Hamilton (1834-1895) and Phoebe Taber (1841-1932). She had two sisters, Jessie Hamilton (1864-1960) and Agnes Hamilton (1868-1961), both artists like her, and two brothers, Allen Hamilton (1874-1961) and Taber Hamilton (1876-1942). Her cousins were Edith Hamilton, Alice Hamilton, Margaret Hamilton and Norah Hamilton.[19]
Even if she was considered one of the most brilliant of the Hamiltons, she was refused the possibility to attend Bryn Mawr College. She studied on her own, and taught her brothers. Like her sister Jessie, she spent all her life taking care of their aging mother, who died after her.
She was the life treasurer of the Women's Reading Club of Fort Wayne, Indiana, member of the Library Committee, and, in 1912, the first president of the Women's Equal Suffrage League. Under chairman Katherine Hamilton, the suffrage society began a series of classes on local government. She was also active in local music and art societies.[20]
She was very close to her cousin Alice, and after her death on February 5, 1932, said that Katherine was "so close and intimate part of life. I can't think of it without her. I have loved her very, very much - more every year." She is buried at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne.
Jessie Marie Hamilton (January 31, 1865 - May 3, 1960) was an artist and cousin, and intimate friend, of Edith Hamilton.
Jessie Marie Hamilton was born on January 31, 1865, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Andrew Holman Hamilton (1834-1895) and Phoebe Taber (1841-1932). She had two sisters, Katherine Hamilton (1862-1932) and Agnes Hamilton (1868-1961), both artists like her, and two brothers, Allen Hamilton (1874-1961) and Taber Hamilton (1876-1942). Her cousins are Edith Hamilton, Alice Hamilton, Margaret Hamilton and Norah Hamilton.[21]
Like her sister Katherine, she spent most of her life taking care of their aging mother. She was an artist and studied at the Fort Wayne School of Art from 1888 to 1893, studying under J. Ottis Adams and William Forsyth.[22] She was a founding member of the second Fort Wayne School of Art, where she taught from 1893 to 1898. After the death of her father in 1895, together with her sister Agnes attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1898 to 1900 studying under Cecilia Beaux. She then went back living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and focused on portraits in pastel, landscapes in watercolor, as well as etchings.
She exhibited in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Richmond (Indiana). Her work was also displayed at the travelling Society of Western Artists Annual Exhibition. Her work is currently in the permanent collection of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
According to Alice Hamilton's biographer, Jessie was the best loved of all the cousins. She died on May 3, 1960, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and is buried with her family at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne.
Agnes Hamilton (November 21, 1868 - November 11, 1961) was a social worker and cousin, and intimate friend, of Alice Hamilton.
Agnes Hamilton was born on November 21, 1868, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Andrew Holman Hamilton (1834-1895) and Phoebe Taber (1841-1932). She had two sisters, Katherine Hamilton (1862-1932) and Jessie Hamilton (1865-1960), both artists like her, and two brothers, Allen Hamilton (1874-1961) and Taber Hamilton (1876-1942). Her cousins are Edith Hamilton, Alice Hamilton, Margaret Hamilton and Norah Hamilton.[23]
Since childhood, she had a close bond with her cousins, Alice and Allen Hamilton Williams (1868-1960), the three As, as they called themselves.
Like her four cousins, Edith, Alice, Margaret and Norah, Agnes Hamilton attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.[24] After the death of her father in 1895, together with her sister Jessie, attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1898 to 1900 studying under Cecilia Beaux. After school, of the three sisters, only Agnes left home.
She consider various career choices, architecture and art among them, but then became a social worker. Among her achievements: was a liaison between the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne and Nebraska, a Mission School in a poor neighborhood; was a leader in the Women's Club movement; was the leader of the Students' Art League; was the founder and first president of the Local YWCA; opened the first library in Fort Wayne; was among the founders of the Bethany Presbyterian Church.[25]
She was deeply religious and enthusiastically adhered to an evangelical religious movement founded by Frank Buchman, the Oxford Group, that promoted personal reformation and public confessions.
Her first experience of settlement life was in 1897 when she visited her cousin Alice at Hull House. In 1902 she became a resident of the Lighthouse, a Philadelphia settlement house, where she served as a director and member of the executive committee until the early 1930s.
Following their mother's death, Jessie and Agnes moved to their summer home in Connecticut, close to their cousins.
She died on November 11, 1961, and is buried at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, with her family.
A statue to Edith, Alice and Agnes Hamilton is dedicated in Headwaters Park in downtown Fort Wayne.
In 2005 Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne formed the Society of Hamilton Sisters to honor the achievements, service contributions, and outstanding accomplishments of middle and high school girls.
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- ^ cite book|last1=Hardwick|first1=Lorna|last2=Harrison|first2=S. J.|title=Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn?|date=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|page=138|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=YWxBAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA138|accessdate=5 January 2018
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- ^ cite web|title=Clara Landsberg papers|url=http://findingaids.library.uic.edu/sc/MSLands69.xml|website=UIC|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=WILE|first1=ISAAC A.|title=THE JEWS OF ROCHESTER|date=1912|publisher=HISTORICAL REVIEW SOCIETY|url=http://libraryweb.org/~digitized/books/History_of_the_Jews_of_Rochester.pdf|accessdate=5 January 2018
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- ^ cite book|last1=Hudson|first1=David Paul|title=Unsettling Service: Rhetorical Education in the Chicago Settlement House Movement, 1890-1968|date=2016|publisher=The University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing|url=https://search.proquest.com/openview/61c4474dc9c0d8c2c5cfc238df9f1a8c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|title=Hull House Year Book|date=1916|url=http://findingaids.eku.edu/files/2005a005-b1-f16-i1.pdf|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Polacheck|first1=Hilda Satt|title=I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull House Girl|publisher=Dena J. Polacheck Epstein|url=https://www.northernhighlands.org/cms/lib/NJ01000179/Centricity/Domain/91/ap%20us%20history/40%20Inside%20Hull%20House.pdf|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Addams|first1=Jane|title=Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes|date=1912|publisher=The MacMillan Company|page=Preface|url=http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse-pr.html|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Joslin|first1=Katherine|title=Jane Addams: A Writer's Life|date=2004|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=271|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=qb0l059P64oC&pg=PA271|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Sicherman|first1=Barbara|title=Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters|date=2003|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=435|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=IvFkk1JSxz4C&pg=PA435|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Hardwick|first1=Lorna|last2=Harrison|first2=S. J.|title=Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn?|date=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|page=138|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=YWxBAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA138|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book | author=Scott Wilson | title =Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons | publisher =McFarland and Company, Inc. | series = | volume =2 | edition =3d (Kindle Edition) | year = | location = | page=Kindle Location 19508 | url = | isbn =
- ^ cite journal|title=Miss Landsberg Succumbs at 93 - 12 Apr 1966, Tue • Page 7|journal=The Post-Standard|date=1966|page=7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16279618/the_poststandard/|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Sicherman|first1=Barbara|title=Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters|date=2003|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=21|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=IvFkk1JSxz4C&pg=PA21|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite web|title=Winning the Vote in Fort Wayne, Indiana The Long, Cautious Journey in a German American City|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/12215/18137|website=Indiana Magazine of History|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Sicherman|first1=Barbara|title=Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters|date=2003|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=21|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=IvFkk1JSxz4C&pg=PA21|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite web|title=Jessie Marie Hamilton|url=http://fineestateart.com/artists/jessie_marie_hamilton|website=Fine Estate Art|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Sicherman|first1=Barbara|title=Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters|date=2003|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=21|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=IvFkk1JSxz4C&pg=PA21|accessdate=5 January 2018
- ^ cite web|title=Agnes Hamilton of Fort Wayne: The Education of a Christian Settlement Worker|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/10522/14755|website=Indiana Magazine of History|accessdate=6 January 2018
- ^ cite web|title=Hamilton Sisters Statue to be Rededicated|url=http://www.ipfw.edu/news/detail.html?id=101026|website=Indiana University|accessdate=6 January 2018
