ABBOTT, GRACE (1878-1939), American social worker, was born Nov. 17, 1878, at Grand Island, Nebraska. She graduated from Grand Island college in 1898, and, after teaching for nine years, became in 1908 director of the Immigrants' Protective League and a resident of Hull House, Chicago. She received the degree of M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1909. From 1917 to 1920 she was director of the child labour division of the children's bureau at Washington, D.C., and subsequently executive secretary of the Illinois immigrants' commission, returning to Washington in 1921 as chief of the children's bureau, a position she retained until 1934, when she became professor of public wel fare at the University of Chicago. She was a consultative member for the United States on the advisory committee of the League of Nations on traffic in women and children, and in 1924 was president of the National Conference of Social Workers. Her works include The Immigrant and the Community (1917) and The Child and the State (1938). She died June 19, 1939.