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Alice P. Gannett was an American settlement house worker and social reformer. The Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is named in her honor.
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- 1 2 Howard S. Hoffman obituary, Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin, November 2006, http://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/bulletin/nv06/obituaries-BrynMawrAlumnaeBulletinNovember2006.shtml Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 21 February 2015).
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