The Father-Daughter Team Who Reformed America
Source: Smithsonian
Illustration by Eduardo Recife. Image source: Library of Congress; New York Public Library Around 150 years ago, a father and daughter held hands in the fierce glare of a Pennsylvania steel mill: a grizzled older man and his dark-eyed daughter, their faces lit by smoldering ore. Few knew what the pair were doing there, but 12-year-old Florence Kelley understood. Her papa, Congressman William Darrah “Pig Iron”…