Kate Everest Levi
Kate Everest Levi (January 4, 1859 – October 19, 1939) was an American educator, author, and social worker. She was the first director of Kingsley House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a settlement house, and the first woman Ph.D. recipient from the University of Wisconsin. She wrote on topics such as education and German immigration to the Midwest.[1][2]
Levi was born Kate Asaphine Everest in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to parents Asaph and Mary (Abercrombie) Everest. After attending Fond du Lac High School, she entered the University of Wisconsin in 1879, earning a B.A. (1882). After graduation, she taught at Markham's Academy, Milwaukee, 1882-83; at the La Crosse high school, 1883-84; and as teacher of history and languages in Lawrence University, 1884-90. She then earned a a M.A. (1892) and Ph.D (1893) from the University of Wisconsin.[3]
She worked with Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago[4] before moving to Pittsburgh, where she was the head of Kingsley House social settlement from 1893-96. She published several articles and monographs on history and education.
She married Ernest Reese Levi on April 21, 1896, and had two children.[1]
She died October 19, 1938 in Madison, Wisconsin, at the age of 79.[2]
Selected works
- "Early Lutheran Immigration to Wisconsin" in Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Vol. 8. Madison, Democrat Printing Company, 1892, pp. 289-298.
- "How Wisconsin Came by Its Large German Element" in Wisconsin Historical Collections, Vol. 12. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1892, pp. 299-334.
- "Geographical Origin of German Immigration to Wisconsin" in Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 14. Madison, Democrat Printing Company, 1898, pp. 341-393.
- "The Press and the Constitution". Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 16, no. 4 (June 1933): 383-403.
References
- ^ a b John W. Leonard (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American commonwealth Company. p. 487.
- ^ a b "Mrs. Kate Levi, Social Worker, Dies in Madison". The Pittsburgh Press. 20 October 1938. p. 30.
- ^ Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. (1900). The University of Wisconsin: Its History and Its Alumni, with Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madison. J. N. Purcell. p. 729.
- ^ "Mrs. K. Levi, Educator, Dies at 79", Wisconsin State Journal, October 19, 1938, p. 5.