Powelton Village

Hannah and Frederick Schoff raised their seven children at 3418 Baring Street (right twin) in Powelton, shown in this contemporary photo. The Schoffs moved here in the early 1880s and expanded the house to fit their famiy's needs. It was here that Hannah edited the National Congress of Mothers' journal Child Welfare (later National Parent-Teacher). She continued to live at 3418 Baring until her death in 1940. 

"In ringing tones of indignation, Mrs. Frederic [sic] Schoff...denounced the agitators who would legislate the rifle and the musket into the hands of the school children and left no doubt as to the scale into which she would throw her influence when the all-important subject of universal military training is brought up at the annual gathering of the [National Congress of Mothers] to be held in Washington this month."

The Wayward Child title page

Juvenile court in St. Louis; A judge hearing a case about a "street boy" who was a "habitual truant." Hannah Schoff was part of a movement led by progressive women at the turn of the century to establish such courts in the nation's cities. 

The New Century Club

Annie McClain, the troubled child on whose behalf Hannah Schoff interceded in criminal court and convinced the judge to treat Annie as a trouble child rather than a criminal adult. Schoff regarded this case as the starting point of her crusade for juvenile courts. 

Hannah Kent Schoff (seated front), whom the Philadelphia Inquirer called the "'mother' of [the] nation's organized mothers," and her family.

The black delegates to the 1895 South Carolina State Constitutional Convention