Collins, Jennie (1828–1887)
Collins, Jennie (1828–1887)
American labor reformer. Born 1828 in Amoskeag, New Hampshire; died July 20, 1887, in Brookline, Massachusetts; orphaned when young.
During Civil War, volunteered in military hospitals (Boston, MA); with shopmates in tailoring firm, formed soldiers' relief association; became significant figure in postwar labor movement; worked with New England Labor Reform League; helped found Working Women's League of Boston (1869); accepted invitation of Susan B. Anthony to address National Woman Suffrage Association convention, Washington, DC (1870); opened social center for working girls in Boston called Boffin's Bower (1870), which provided food, lodging, and employment assistance. Wrote Nature's Aristocracy (ed. Russell H. Conwell, 1871).
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