Helen M. Grenfall (?-?):
Helen M. Grenfell was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Colorado, in 1898 through 1904. She was greatly admired by politicians in her state and by national women’s rights activists.
Party Affiliation:
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Photographs:
Resources:
Chautauquan, 34:484. Raine, "Woman Suffrage in Colorado."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbnawsan9195div38))
[Library of Congress, American Memory Project]
Grenfell materials in Guide to the Records of the Colorado State Forestry Association, Colorado State University http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/agriculture/acfa.html
A conundrum: Perceptions of gender and professional educators during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Educational Foundations , Summer 2000 by Smith, Joan K, Vaughn, Courtney
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3971/is_200007/ai_n8904638/pg_6
[Additional Notes]:
Of Mrs. Helen M. Grenfell, the most famous of Colorado's women superintendents, an ex-governor of the state once said: "She is not only the best superintendent, but the best state official that Colorado has ever had." The following quotation serves to show, not merely the personality of the most prominent f Colorado's women office-holders, but also the type of woman who is calculated to win the greatest success in politics: "Mrs. Grenfell is strong, earnest, competent, yet womanly and inspiring. She has not made her office wait upon politics, and the result has amply justified her. ... Mrs. Grenfell asks no special recognition on account of her sex, though she has always met with courteous treatment. She stands on her merits alone, as all women who are successful in public affairs must do, and on account of reasonable and impersonal point of view has the faculty of working in harmony with the men associated with her." Page 137
[Note 1: 1 Chautauquan, 34:484. Raine, "Woman Suffrage in Colorado."]
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