Mary E. McDowell 1854-1936 Sometimes called the "Angel of the Stockyards," Mary McDowell preferred to think of herself as Concerned Citizen. The Head of the University of Chicago Settlement from its inception in 1894, she reached out from that base to promote trade unionism and safer working conditions, woman suffrage, inter-racial understanding, and reforms in municipal waste disp[osal. Her abolitionist father brought the family from Cincinnati to Chicago after the Civil War. In t ...