Irene Osgood Andrews, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Irene Osgood Andrews

American writer

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1879

Place of Birth: Big Rapids, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Irene Osgood, Mrs.
John Andrews (born January 18, 1879, in Big Rapids, Michigan - died February 1963, in New York, New York) was an American writer on problems of women in industry.Born in Big Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of Lucius L.
Osgood and Mary Markley, she was educated at the School of Philanthropy in New York and at the University of Wisconsin, graduating with an A.B.
in 1905.She began her career as agent for the Associated Charities at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, in 1906 was appointed special agent for relief work in the American Red Cross in San Francisco, and factory inspector in Wisconsin.
She was head resident of the Northwestern University Settlement, Chicago in 1907. She became assistant secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation in 1908 and a member or the Y.W.C.A.
National Industrial Commission to Europe (1918), was author of contributions to the Legislative Review. She wrote: Minimum Wage Legislation, Working Women in Tanneries, Irregular Employment and the Living Wage for Women, The Economic Effects of the War upon Women and Children in Great Britain (Oxford, 1918; 1921; reprinted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.)She married John Bertram Andrews on August 8, 1910 and had a son, John Osgood Andrews.