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Lucy Jane Rider Meyer

American social worker and educator
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Lucy Jane Rider
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Sept. 9, 1849, New Haven, Vt., U.S.
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March 16, 1922, Chicago, Ill. (aged 72)
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Lucy Jane Rider Meyer (born Sept. 9, 1849, New Haven, Vt., U.S.—died March 16, 1922, Chicago, Ill.) American social worker and educator whose activity within the Methodist church was aimed at training and organizing workers to provide health and social services for the poor, the elderly, and children. Lucy Rider attended public schools and the New Hampton Literary Institution in Fairfax, Vermont. After teaching for three years, she entered Oberlin (Ohio) College, from which she graduated after two years in 1872. She then attended the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (1873–75) to prepare herself to share the life of the ...(100 of 396 words)

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