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Linda Gilbert

American welfare worker
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Zelinda Gilbert
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May 13, 1847, probably Rochester, N.Y., U.S.
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Oct. 24, 1895, Mount Vernon, N.Y. (aged 48)
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Linda Gilbert (born May 13, 1847, probably Rochester, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 24, 1895, Mount Vernon, N.Y.) was an American welfare worker whose efforts to provide library and other services to prison inmates met with limited success. Gilbert grew up in Chicago from the age of five. In childhood her daily path to convent school took her past the Cook County Jail. She eventually developed an acquaintance with one of the prisoners and discovered from him that there was no reading material in the jail. Her resolve to establish a library in the jail was fulfilled in 1864 when she donated ...(100 of 271 words)

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