| Contextual Notes | Helen Ekin Starrett was an author, editor, publisher, inventor, reporter, business woman, suffragette, and Temperance member. She was the only woman in the nation to attend both the first National Woman Suffrage Association convention in 1869 and its last in 1920. She also founded the Starrett School for Girls in Chicago in 1884, and was president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association from 1893-1894 (Source: "So we may all be heard" by Marlene Cook, Pen Points Newsletter, p. 6, Fall 2008). |
