Laura Jane Addams was her legal name, named after Mrs. Laura Jane Forbes, who had taught private school in Cedarville. While she was a little girl she became ill with typhoid fever, followed by tuberculosis of the spine. Her back became crooked and she held her head slightly to one side. Jane Addams was a constant reader as a child, and of difficult texts. Ronald H. Beam states that at 10 years old she read, Pope's Illian, Dryden's Virgil, and a History of the World. Her early schooling was at the Cedarville (public) school. Her teacher was Samuel Parr, later a professor of Latin at University of Illinois. Jane was expelled from the Daughters of the American Revolution for being against WW I. She was on a lot of blacklists, until the Depression, when people started listening to her, and her humanitarian projects and ideals. She then won many more awards, including leading the poll of the 12 greatest American Women, and 14 honorary doctorate degrees (Notes by Alice Horner)