16 Facts About Alzina Stevens

Alzina Stevens was an American labor leader, social reformer, and editor, active in Hull House in Chicago.

Alzina Stevens was one of the representative women in the order of the Knights of Labor and an ardent advocate of equal suffrage.

Alzina Stevens served on the editorial staff of the Toledo Bee and was half owner and editor of the Vanguard, an organ of the People's Party.

Alzina Stevens Ann Parsons was born in Parsonsfield, Maine May 27,1849.

Alzina Stevens's grandfather was Colonel Thomas Parsons, who commanded a Massachusetts regiment in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Alzina Stevens saw her missing finger as a constant reminder of the need to improve working conditions and regulate child labour.

In 1867, Alzina Stevens moved to Chicago and found work in the printing trade, serving as a typesetter, compositor, proofreader, correspondent, and editor.

Alzina Stevens became active in the trade unions, notably as one of the leaders of the Knights of Labor in Chicago.

Alzina Stevens was again instrumental in organizing a woman's society, the Joan of Arc Assembly Knights of Labor, and was its first master workman and a delegate from that body to the district assembly.

Alzina Stevens represented the district in the general assemblies of the order in the conventions held in Atlanta, Georgia, Denver, Colorado, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Toledo, Ohio.

In 1892, Alzina Stevens became a resident of Hull House where she joined other social reformers such as Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, and Sophonisba Breckinridge at the settlement.

Alzina Stevens became one of the few women involved at Hull House who had first-hand experience of working-class life.

Alzina Stevens represented the labor organizations of northwestern Ohio in the National Industrial Conference in St Louis, Missouri, in February 1892, and in the Omaha, Nebraska convention of the People's Party, July 1892.

For several years, Alzina Stevens held a position on the editorial staff of the Toledo Bee.

Alzina Stevens was appointed to the Women's Auxiliary Committee of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition Labor Congress.

In 1896, Alzina Stevens became the first probation officer of the then-recently established Cook County Juvenile Court committee.