Jane Addams (1860-1935)U.S. social reformer, feminist, temperance campaigner, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931. As a young woman, enjoyed an enviable social position as the daughter of a wealthy state senator in Illinois. Chose to reject marriage and domesticity to seek personal fulfillment in helping the impoverished and mainly immigrant communities of Chicago’s industrial heartland.