Abbott, Grace (1878–1939)

Grace Abbott, American social worker and second chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau, was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, the third of Othman Ali Abbott and Elizabeth Griffin Abbott's four children. Othman Abbot was a Civil War veteran, lawyer, and Nebraska's ...

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