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Sued for divorce. By Julia Tiffany Parker, 'twin granddaughter of the late jewelry tycoon Charles Lewis Tiffany: Gurdon S. Parker, Manhattan architect; at Reno...
...start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement for a National Committee on Mental Hygiene? William Henry Welch, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould Schurman, Julia Clifford Lathrop. Twenty-two years ago this month 14 people, including zealous Mr. Beers, met at the New Haven home of Anson Phelps Stokes. Dr. Stokes now is canon of the Washington Cathedral, engaged in writing History of Universities from Their Origin to the Present Time...
...active Miss Addams is too busy to say much. The idea of taking care of a great city's poor came to her in 1883 when she watched an auctioneer in London's East Side selling a consignment of badly spoiled meat. She and her longtime friend, Julia C. Lathrop, went back to Chicago a few years later and started their charitarian operations in the home of one Charles J. Hull, at Halsted near Polk Street. It was a lively neighborhood. On one side stood a mortuary, on the other a saloon. Hull-House grew, expanded building...
...President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co., who met his wife (Mary Dayton Hill) at Hull-House; Vice President B. E. Hutchinson of Chrysler Corp.; President Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Editor Paul Underwood Kellogg of The Survey; Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Cottier's Weekly; Julia Clifford Lathrop, first chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau; Editor Harriet Monroe of Poetry...
When he was 22 he married Julia Chamberlain, younger sister of his brother Lewis Stuyvesant ("Loulou") Chanler's first wife, and went to Paris. It was there that he started seriously to paint, studied at the Beaux Arts...