Ames, Fanny Baker (1840–1931)
Ames, Fanny Baker (1840–1931)
American reformer. Born Julia Frances Baker, June 14, 1840, in Canandaigua, NY; died Aug 21, 1931, in Barnstable, Massachusetts; attended Antioch College; m. Charles Gordon Ames (Unitarian minister); children: Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944, writer and social activist).
With Unitarian minister husband, founded the Relief Society of Germantown, Pennsylvania (1873), the 1st visiting social-worker service in US; on her suggestion, Women's Auxiliary Conference of the Unitarian Church founded (1880); was incorporator (1883) and member of the 1st board of the Children's Aid Society and Bureau of Information; was also active in a number of woman suffrage associations.
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