Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch

Mary Kingsbury (Melinda) Simkhovitch (1867 – 1951) was a pioneering American social worker. She was born in Chestnut Hill, Mass., She received a degree from Boston University in 1890. and subsequently studied at Radcliffe, Columbia University, and finally at the University of Berlin.

In 1902, she and others founded the Greenwich House, in the Greenwich Village district of New York City; she retiresd in

Publications

 * Neighborhood (1938),
 * Group Life (1940), Quicksand (with Elizabeth Ogg, 1942),
 *  Here Is God's Plenty (1949). (autobiography)