User:Benga101/Katharine Bement Davis

Back in 1928, Katherine Bement Davis was not able to continue her activities due to her worsened health, in regards to her gallbladder specifically. Consequently, by the year of 1928, she retired from the Bureau of Social Hygiene. After her retirement, she was honored for her contributions. Consequently, on February 2, 1928, the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom was filled with Progressive Era reformers to honor Davis at a testimonial dinner. The guests including Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Walter Lippman, Judge William McAdoo, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lillian Wald and Felix Warb urg. Unfortunately, due to her poor health, she was not able to make it.

Chicago
Davis first began her journey to Chicago in 1893 when she directed a diet and living standard exhibit in the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1897, Davis quit her job at the Philadelphia College Settlement House and moved to Chicago, Illinois. Here she attended Chicago University, where she was the first female Fellow in Political Science-Economics to earn a Ph.D. Davis studied political economy under Thorstein Veblen and minored in sociology under George E. Vincent. She also received a traveling fellowship, in which she went to Berlin and Vienna. Davis earned her degree in economics in 1901 and decided to take the New York civil service exam. After that, Davis took a job at Bedford Hills Reformatory.