Alice Hamilton became a resident of Chicago's Hull House, a settlement house that offered food, shelter, and educational classes as a charitable effort on the part of wealthy donors and scholars who volunteered their time. She later became a noted pioneer in industrial toxicology, a professor of pathology Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University, a special scientific investigator for the U.S. Bureau of Labor. In 1919 Alice became the first woman professor (assistant professor of internal medicine) at Harvard Medical School. Later in life she was a reformer, political activist, and consultant in the U.S. Division of Labor Standards. She also served as president of the National Consumers League and authored textbooks on industrial poisons and industrial toxicolory. See: Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (1980). Notable American Women: The Modern Period, A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University. pp.303–06. ISBN978-0-674-62732-1.
Janice Lee Jayes, "Hamilton, Edith (1867–1963)" in Anne Commire, ed. (2002). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Vol.6. Detroit: Yorkin Publications. p.728. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
