Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

She's giving and she's gracious, she's smart and quite courageous, creative and audacious.

Jane Adams Double D, her house is a museum, where people come to see him.

She's always glad to greet him, Jane Adams Double D, the end.

Let's talk about Jane Adams.

But first let's drop her into history.

In 1860, Bernie, the future king Edward VII, made the very first visit of any British royal to the United States.

11-year-old Grace Bedell wrote to candidate Abraham Lincoln and told him he should grow beard.

The next month, he was elected the 16th president of the United States.

The covered gimlet screw with a tea handle, what we know as a quirk screw, was patented.

The pony express made its first male delivery from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.

18 months later, the last letters were delivered.

South Carolina succeeded from the Union and Harriet Tubman ran her last mission-freeing slaves.

Lizzie Borden, Annie Oakley, Grandma Moses, and Juliet Gordon-Low were born.

And on September 6th, 1860, Jane Adams, the future pioneer in social reform, entered this world.

Laura Jane Adams was born on September 6th, 1860, the eighth child of the nine children of John, Wee Adams, and Sarah Weber Adams.

Though, three of those children died of cholera or et cetera before she was born and one died at birth, as we shall see.

So functionally, Jenny, as everyone called Laura Jane, was raised as the youngest of five children.

Jenny, after Jenny Lind, famous singer and recent homage, give E in the greatest showman, if you've seen that.

Ah, nice.

The nickname Jenny, at this time, was most often used for the names Johanna, Joanna, and Jane, then Jennifer, Jennifer.

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