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Also Known As Maud Elizabeth Charlesworth
Born September 13, 1865 • England
Died August 26, 1948 (aged 82) • Great Neck • New York
Founder Volunteers of America

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Katharine Bement Davis.
Katharine Bement Davis
American penologist
Booth, William
William Booth
British minister
Catherine Booth
British religious leader
Booth, William Bramwell
William Bramwell Booth
British minister
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher and economist
Lathrop, Julia Clifford
Julia Clifford Lathrop
American social worker
Nina Otero-Warren
Nina Otero-Warren
American civil rights activist and educator
Lillian D. Wald.
Lillian D. Wald
American sociologist
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
American activist
Abbott, Grace
Grace Abbott
American social worker
Kate Richards O’Hare Cunningham
American reformer
Jane Addams
Jane Addams
American social reformer
Holt, Winifred
Winifred Holt
American social worker
Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham
American reformer and writer
Evangeline Cory Booth.
Evangeline Cory Booth
American religious leader
Sister Simone Campbell
Sister Simone Campbell
American nun, attorney, and poet
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
American social reformer
Abbott, Edith
Edith Abbott
American social worker
Clara Shortridge Foltz
American lawyer and reformer
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American social reformer