Adena
Miller was born in 1888. After graduating from
Oberlin College in Ohio she worked at the Chicago School of Civics
and Philanthropy.
In 1916 Adena was appointed as civic director of the Women's City
Club in Cincinnati. She later returned to Chicago
and with her husband, Kenneth Rich, became residents at the Hull
House Settlement.
Adena had been involved in the struggle for women's
suffrage and in 1923 was elected vice-president of the League
of Women Voters, where she worked closely with the president,
Maud Park. In 1926 left the post to become
director of the Immigrants' Protective
League.
On the death of Jane Addams in 1935, Adena,
who had lived at Hull House Settlement
for sixteen years, was appointed by the Hull House Association board
of trustees as the new head resident. However, Adena clashed with
the increasingly dogmatic Louise Bowen,
president of the board of trustees and was resigned in 1937 and was
replaced by Charlotte Carr as head resident.
Adena Miller Rich died in 1967.
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