Balch (Emily Greene) is born in Boston.

Emily Greene Balch grows up at 130 Prince Street, attends the Prince School and Miss Ireland’s School, and graduates from Bryn Mawr College, studies at the Sorbonne, and returns to Boston to help found a settlement house in 1892. After graduate studies in economics at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and in Berlin, she begins teaching at Wellesley College in 1896, but is dismissed for her involvement in the antiwar movement in 1918. Balch moves to Wellesley in 1924, helps found the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.* She moves to Cambridge in 1956, dies there on January 9, 1961, and is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery.