Frances Kellor

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Frances Alice Kellor was an American sociologist. She was born October 20, 1873 in Columbus, Ohio. Died 1952.

She graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1897 and studied at the University of Chicago and at the New York Summer School of Philanthropy.

She was secretary and treasurer of the New York State Immigration Commission in 1909 and chief investigator for the Bureau of Industries and Immigration of New York State in 1910-13; and became managing director of the North American Civic League for Immigrants and a member of the Progressive National Committee. She died in 1952.

"Kellor never married. Like many other woman progressives, she found personal fulfillment in an enduring relationship with another woman. This was Mary Dreier, one of two wealthy sisters who played leading roles in New York progressivism. " (Henretta, Brody, Dumenil, Ware)

She was the author of the following:

Experimental Sociology (1902)
Out of Work (1904)
Education of Women by Athletics (1909)
Out of Work (1915)
Straight America - A Call to National Service (1916)
Immigration and the Future (1920)

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Frances Alice Kellor grew up in Ohio and then in Michigan. She received her Law degree in 1897 from Cornell University, becoming the small group of women becoming professional. She was always interested in solving the social problems that faced Americans during her years. She believed that if the people listened to the poor living in the most diminishing areas, there could be great change in society for the better. Kellor, a progressive, thought that the environment is the cause for the criminals in jail. Kellor never married , for she devoted her life to social research and reform.