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Origin of Family
Family was created thousands of years ago but no specific date of when. There is evidence of family in the Bible and in hieroglyphics. -
Birth Ellen Swallow Richards
Dunstable, Massachusetts -
Move for better education
Westford Academy in Westford, Massachusetts -
Before Industrial Revolution
Before the industrial revolution there was large house holds which would make it easier to run a household -
Ellen starts at Vassar College
Began as a Third year student -
Ellen graduates Vassar College
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MIT application
Ellen applies for MIT -
Accepted to MIT
Ellen is accepted to MIT as a "special student" -
Water Testing
Begins water testing with Professor Nichols -
Robert Proposes
Professor Robert Richards proposes marriage to Ellen multiple times -
Teaching and Graduates
teaches at Girls' High School of Boston and graduates MIT -
Ellen and Richard's New start
Ellen and Robert marry. Move to Jamaica Plain on Elliot street because they wanted more air and space and city. -
Woman's Laboratory opens
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Ellen's Advancments
Ellen and students does a study about adulteration of foods, which becomes the first Food and Drug Act. -
First Women
For American Institute if Mining and Metallurgical Engineers -
During Industrial Revolution
The work force began and men were put to work while women had to run the house hold and raise children by themselves. -
Co-founder
Association of Collegiate Alumnae (American Association of University Women -
MIT New Chemistry Lab
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Ellen's Second study
The outcome of purity tables becomes nations first water quality standard -
Ellen establishes New England Kitchen
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Rumford Kitchen
Ellen opens kitchen in Chicago World's Fair -
First Annual Lake Placid conference
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American Home Economics Association
Ellen was the first President -
Consumer Education
Family and Consumer Science was known as Home economics before becoming Consumer Education -
American Dream
The American Dream Family was a husband, wife, and two children. Which the father was the main source of income while the mother was a housewife. -
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement began which brought light to the inequality of women/wives and people of color in the workplace and the house. This start a chain reaction of chance in both -
Family Dynamic
Lots of changes to what the meaning of family is. There became a normal idea of single-families, same-sex families, and mixed-race families. Now the definition of family is harder to define. -
Cited Sources
Ellen Swallows Richards Timeline: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118923849.oth1
American Association of Family Consumer Science: https://www.aafcs.org/partnership/about-aafcs
Info for Ellen Swallow Richards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEI_I61eOzY
Family Resource Management 4th Edition