A Life Of Frances Perkins: Republican Ideology

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Frances Perkins On April, 10, 1880 Fannie Coralie Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1913, she legally changed her first name to Frances. Frances Perkins spent most of her childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. Perkins’ parents preached the ideals of hard work, conservative values, and the Republican ideology (Biography.com). For Perkins, education was more important and her father, Fredrick Perkins, taught Frances Greek grammar and classical literature. Later, Frances enrolled in the nearly all male Worcester Classical High School. After she attended high school in Worcester, she then in 1898 enrolled at Mount Holyoke College. Frances Perkins earned a Bachelor of Art degree in chemistry and physics (Biography.com). She also graduated as the president of the class of 1902 (History.com). After graduating Frances Perkins’ …show more content…

Women during Frances time were living at home, or waiting for suitable men to come marry them. In 1903, Perkins moved to Lake Forest, Illinois where she taught physics and biology. While staying in Illinois, she also worked at Hull Houses in Chicago. Frances Perkins worked with Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. When Perkins worked at the Hull Houses, she found her life’s calling. Historical events that took place during Frances Perkins’ time were the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Great Depression. In 1911, Frances Perkin witnessed the infamous fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, where 146 young women died in the worst industrial disaster in New York City history (An Extraordinary

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