Robert WOODS (1865-1925)
1 Robert Archery WOODS1,2,3 (1865-1925) [13512]. Born 9 Dec 1865, East Liberty, PA.2 Marr Eleanor Howard BUSH 1902, Cambridge, MA.3,4 Died 18 Feb 1925, Boston, MA.4,5
From the Boston Journal.
August 8, 1897 - "Mr. Robert A. Woods, the head of the South End House, the college settlement at 6 Rollins Street, has been ill with typhoid fever for some weeks. His condition now is quite hopeful, however, and he should be about in a short time.
From the New York Times.
February 18, 1925 - "Boston, Feb, 18 - Robert Archey Woods, founder of the South End House, Boston, author, editor, lecturer and internationally known settlement worker, died, suddenly tonight after a two month's illness.
Mr. Woods, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1865, was the author of "The Preparation of Calvin Coolidge.", "English Social Movements", and "The Neighborhood Nation Building." He was a former editor of "The City Wilderness" and "Americans in Process" and joint editor of "Handbook of Settlements" and "Young Working Girls."
He was a former president of the Boston Social Union and of the National Conference of Social Work and former Secretary of the Natioinal Federation of Settlements. He was a trustee of Anherst College from 1910 to 1920.
He was graduated from Amherst in 1886 and was at the Andover Theological Seminary from that year until 1890. For a time he was assistant chaplain at the Concord (Mass.) Reformatory, leaving there he became a resident student at Toynbe Hallo, London, the first settlement house established for the study of sociological problems. In 1891 he publoished his first book, "English Social Movements." a work which established his reputatio as an authority of sociology."
From Mary Antin, Helen Morton and the South End's Settlement House Movement.
"Serving as a bridge between the pioneers of the settlement house movement and the newer breed of social workers, Morton frequented 14 Bond Street, where the founder of Sooth End House and author of City Wilderness Robert Archey Woods and his wife Eleanor Howard Bush Woods still lived, Eleanor Woods was sister of Samuel Prescott Bush (thus the great-aunt of George Bush and the great-great-aunt of George W.), In her 1929 biography of her husband, Eleanor Woods detailed the history of South End House first at 6 Rollins and then at 20 Union Park. Morton also recalled 20 Union Park in the 20's as a place where residents enjoyed evening meals by candlelight: then, led by the Woods, drank coffee from a samovar, and discussed their Smith End days.".
Sources
| 1 | "Mary Antin, Helen Morton and the South End's Settlement House Movement". |
| 3 | "1910 MA, Suffolk, Boston census". |
| 4 | "South End House Records, Houghton Library, Harvard College". |
| 5 | "Obituary of Robert A. Woods in the New York Times, February 19, 1925". |
