Hamilton, Alice

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Following is a chronology of AH's life and work. For further information, see Notable American Women: The Modern Period and AH's autobiography , Exploring the Dangerous Trades (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942). See also Hamilton family papers (MC 278), available on microfilm (M-24).

  • 1869 - 1886 : -born in New York city; raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • 1886 - 1888 : -attends Miss Porter's School , Farmington, Connecticut
  • 1893: -earns M.D. from University of Michigan ; interns at Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children , Minneapolis
  • 1893 - 1894 : -interns at New England Hospital for Women and Children , Boston
  • 1895: -works in bacteriology laboratory, University of Michigan
  • 1895 - 1897 : -does postgraduate study in bacteriology and pathology in Germany
  • 1897: Baltimore Baltimore Administration - University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore County Fire Department Station 10 Parkville New Baltimore Embassy Suites Hotel Baltimore at BWI Airport East Baltimore Church of Christ Baltimore City Fire Station 32 Engine 55 Baltimore City Fire Station 1 Engine 45 Village of Baltimore Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Covered Bridge Phillips Seafood - Baltimore WBSB-FM (Baltimore) Baltimore Maritime Museum Clifton-East End Station Baltimore Post Office New Baltimore Post Office WBAL-TV (Baltimore) Baltimore Park Baltimore Canyon Trail Baltimore City Fire Station 14 Engine 53 Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards Community College of Baltimore County Catonsville Baltimore Highlands North Baltimore Church of Christ -postgraduate study at Johns Hopkins Medical School , Baltimore -appointed professor of pathology at the Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University -becomes resident and active member of Hull House
  • 1902 - 1910 : Chicago Chicago Chicago Fire Department District 4 Station 32 La Quinta Inn Chicago O'Hare Airport Chicago Engine Company 125 Rio Chicansago Chicago Graphic Arts Institute East Chicago City Hall Chicago Weather Service Forecast Office Chicago Ridge School Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Ridge Chicago Milwaukee Saint Paul and Pacific Overpass Bridge Ramada Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel Cachica Chicago Fire Department District 6 Station 24 East Chicago Fire Station Number 2 Four Points Chicago Midway Chicago Chicago Engine Company 112 Chicago and Northwestern Station Chicago Fire Department District 4 Station 96 Skydive Chicago Airport WXRT-FM (Chicago) -works as bacteriologist at Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases , Chicago -investigates typhoid epidemic and drug traffic in Chicago
  • 1903: -studies at Pasteur Institute , Paris
  • 1907 - : -studies industrial diseases on her own
  • 1908: -appointed to the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases
  • 1910: -appointed supervisor of the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases, concentrating on lead poisoning
  • 1911 - 1912 : -appointed special investigator for U.S. Department of Labor ; investigates lead
  • 1913 - 1919 : -works for Bureau of Labor Statistics , U.S. Department of Labor; investigates rubber, munitions, other industries
  • 1915: -delegate to first International Congress of Women (The Hague) -visits German-occupied Belgium -travels to war capitals and discusses Congress's peace proposal
  • 1918: -appointed Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School (after 1928, Harvard School of Public Health), Harvard's first woman professor
  • 1919: Zurich Zurich Lake Zurich Fire Rescue Department Station 3 Zurich Jamarta Zurich Villa Zurich Hotel Four Points by Sheraton Sihlcity - Zurich Zurich Cemetery Zurich Zurich Lake Zurich Shopping Center Zurich School Ema Housethe Zurich All Suite H Zurich Fire Department Lake Zurich Fire Rescue Department Station 2 Lake Zurich Highlands Lake Zurich High School Lake Zurich Heights Comfort Inn Royal Zurich Lake Zurich Golf Club Renaissance Zurich Hotel Zurich Park Hotel Kronenhof Zurich Swissotel International Zurich -attends second International Congress of Women ( Zurich ) Germany Federal Republic of Germany -visits Germany to investigate postwar famine
  • 1923 - 1933 : -consultant to General Electric
  • 1924: -reviews industrial hygiene in U.S.S.R.
  • 1924 - 1930 : -serves two consecutive terms on Health Committee of League of Nations
  • 1925: -publishes Industrial Poisons in the United States
  • 1930 - 1932 : -member, Herbert Hoover's President's Research Committee on Social Trends
  • 1933: -travels in Nazi Germany
  • 1934: -publishes Industrial Toxicology
  • 1935: Hadlyme, Connecticut Hadlyme -retires from Harvard, moves to Hadlyme, Connecticut with sister Margaret and Clara Landsberg -consultant to Labor Department's Division of Labor Standards
  • 1937 - 38 : -conducts field study of conditions in viscose rayon industry for Division of Labor Standards
  • 1943: -publishes autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades
  • 1944 - 49 : -president of National Consumers' League
  • 1949: -publishes revised edition of Industrial Toxicology with Harriet Hardy
  • 1970: -dies in Hadlyme at the age of 101

From the guide to the Papers, 1909-1965, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)

Alice B. Hamilton was a Jersey City, New Jersey based Republican political activist who served as an alternate delegate in the 1936, 1940 (and possibly the 1944) Republican National Conventions. She was interested in elevating the role of women in the Republican Party and encouraged women to be more politically active within the Party. She was married to J. Burt Hamilton.

From the description of Alice B. Hamilton Collection, 1936-1940. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 60757778

A physician who was the first woman professor at Harvard University, Hamilton also worked as a resident researcher at Hull House, a researcher of industrial poisons for the U.S. Department of Labor, and was a member of the League of Nations Health Organization and of President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. For further information, see Notable American Women, The Modern Period (1980); Hamilton's autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades (1942); and Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (1984).

From the description of Papers, 1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122471496

A physician who was the first woman professor at Harvard University, Hamilton also worked as a resident researcher at Hull House, a researcher of industrial poisons for the U.S. Department of Labor, and a member of the League of Nations Health Organization and of President Hoover's Committe on Social Trends. For further information see Notable American Women, The Modern Period; Hamilton's autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942); and Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (Camb., MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1984).

From the description of Papers 1909-1965 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006621

Epithet: daughter of the executor of George Every

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