nineteenth-ward

Updated: July 16, 2025

I remember a young professor from the University of Chicago who with his wife came to live at Hull-House, traveling the long distance every day throughout the autumn and winter that he might qualify as a nineteenth-ward voter in the spring campaign.

Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes

One of our trustees who was most active in inaugurating this League always said that his nineteenth-ward experience had convinced him of the unity of city politics, and that he constantly used our campaign as a challenge to the unaroused citizens living in wards less conspicuously corrupt.

Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes