1886-1895
1885 - Chicago Woman’s Club (CWC) chartered
1886 - Haymarket Affair-A violent confrontation occurred on Chicago’s West Side between protestors rallying for labor rights and police- received international attention and led to further protests and reforms
1886 - Grace Bagley gave birth to the couple’s first child, Frederick Bagley, Jr.
1887 - Unity (Unitarian) Church in Hinsdale opens new building, William Channing Gannett, pastor
ca. 1887 - F. P. Bagley and partner form a wholesale marble firm called Bagley & Nason, at 18th street near Canal Street
1888 - Almeda Bagley, GB’s second child was born
1888 - Fresh Air Home proposed by Rev. William C. Gannett, Unity Church
1889 - Leonard Hodges dies- Carrie Almeda (her mother) and Almeda Hodges (her sister) move in with Grace and her family
1889 - Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr rented the Hull mansion in the densely populated immigrant neighborhood of the Near West Side (Halsted/Polk). The two were inspired by an earlier visit to Toynbee Hall in London. Hull becomes the first social settlement in the U.S.
1889 - F.P. Bagley acquired property on Polk and Pacific (site of the tenement he would build)
ca. 1890 - F.P. Bagley builds tenement at 186-188 Pacific Avenue- 4 stories tall
1889 - Leonard Hodges died. GM’s mother and younger sister moved in with her family.
1891 - U.S. Congress selected Chicago as the host city for the next World’s Fair. (It had come down to a choice between NY and Chicago)
1891 - Fresh Air Association created, home in Hinsdale provides respite during the summer to women and children from settlement houses in Chicago, cooperatively run by congregations in Riverside, LaGrange, Western Springs, Hinsdale, GB serves on the Board
1891 - Grace Bagley was a member of the World’s Fair Auxiliary that sent a letter to the City’s Commissioner of Public Works objecting to illegal obstructions in streets and sidewalks that would make it difficult for “people of all classes” to attend the fair. The list included Mrs. HW Rogers, Frances Willard, and Mrs. JM (Lucy) Flower
1891 - Grace Bagley’s mother had an afternoon reception (debutante coming out) for younger daughter Almeda
1892 - Elizabeth Bagley, GB’s third child was born
1892 - Grace Bagley wrote and published “’The Black Hole’ of Chicago,” in Chicago Figaro magaxin
1893 - Frederick and Grace hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design a summer home for them in Hinsdale, IL
1893 - The World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago from May through October
1893/5 - Grace Bagley began spending time at Hull House and went to visit Pacific Avenue tenement (1897 article says several years ago)
1893 - F.P. Bagley elected as a director of All Souls Church Chicago, Other directors include Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Lydia Avery Coonley
1893 - Frederick P. Bagley joined the publications committee of the American Congress of Liberal Religious Societies
1894 - Bagley House completed as summer home for the family.
1894 - Grace presented a paper on the appointments of the nursery and their influence on the child at the first national conference on the study of child nature, sponsored by Chicago Kindergarten College (sketch of her presenting)
1895 - Grace Bagley leads the Study Class for the Philanthropy Dept. of the CWC
1895 - CWC votes to accept members regardless of race-Fanny Barrier Williams admitted