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Fanny Baker Ames (14 June 1840 – 21 August 1931) was a philanthropist and women's rights leader. ==Biography== Born Julia Frances Baker in Canandaigua, New York. She attended Antioch College for one term and began to teach school in Cincinnati. Two years later, she left teaching and became a volunteer nurse in the Civil War. Ames married her husband, the Unitarian activist Reverend Charles Gordon Ames, on June 25, 1863. They shared a deep devotion to the Unitarian religion (Ames would later play a major role in the founding of the Women's Auxiliary Conference of the Unitarian Church). Together, they initially supported the American Woman Suffrage Association until it aligned itself with the National Woman Suffrage Association. They were also dedicated abolitionists and social reformers. Mrs. Ames worked especially to encourage a new approach to philanthropy in the late nineteenth century. In 1880 Ames founded, and was president of, the Children's Aid Society and Bureau in Pennsylvania, and frequently traveled the state doing social work in that position. In her speech "The Care of Dependent Children" before feminists at the National Council of Women, she advocated that society deals with poor people as individuals, instead of "helpless masses". In the wake of the Panic of 1873 she founded the Germantown Relief Society. She also helped found, and was head of, the New Century Club, one of the most influential cultural and political clubs for feminists and reformers in Boston in the late 19th century. In addition, around this time, Ames served as the first female factory inspector appointed by the state of Massachusetts, where she advocated such reforms as separate washrooms for men and women. By the 1890s she was a prominent member of the Anti-Imperialist League.〔http://swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/CDGA.A-L/antiimperialistleague.htm〕 In 1899 she was selected to be one of the original members of the board of trustees of Simmons College 〔Edward T. James, Notable American Women, 1607-1950. A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. 3 vols. Cambridge, England: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1971. , 39〕 Ames died in Boston in 1931. She was survived by her two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fanny Baker Ames」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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