Ellen Martin Henrotin

Ellen Martin Henrotin
Born	Ellen Martin (1847-07-06)July 6, 1847 Portland, Maine
Died	June 29, 1922(1922-06-29) (aged 74) Cherry Plain, New York
Burial place	Rosehill Cemetery
Nationality	American
Spouse	Charles Henrotin ​ (m. 1869)​

Ellen Martin Henrotin (July 6, 1847 – June 29, 1922) was a wealthy American society matron, labor reform activist, club leader and social reformer affiliated with social welfare and suffrage movements.[1][2][3]

Biography

Henrotin was born on July 6, 1847, in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Edward Byam and Sarah Ellen Martin, and the second of six children.[4] During her youth, she lived in England, and attended schools in London, Paris, and Dresden, 1860–68.[5] Returning to the US in 1868,[6] she married Charles Henrotin, one of the founders of the Chicago Stock Exchange, on September 2, 1869, in Chicago. Their children were Edward Clement (born 1871), Charles Martin (born 1876), and Morris Bates (born 1885).[5]

Ellen's and Charles' graves (bottom-center stone) at Rosehill Cemetery

She served as Vice President of the Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1894-98; President of Fortnightly Club of Chicago; as well as Trustee, University of Illinois, 1912–17. She was decorated by the Sultan of Turkey with the Order of the Chefakat, 1893; made an Officier de l'Académie by the French Republic, 1899; and decorated by Leopold II of Belgium with the Chevalier de l'Ordre de Léopold, 1904. She was a member of the Friday Club; Chicago Woman's Club; and Woman's City Club.[5][7]

Henrotin lived at 1215 Madison Avenue, in New York City.[5] She died on June 29, 1922, in Cherry Plain, New York.[8]

She and Charles are buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.

Selected works

The Social Evil in Chicago, 1911, authored by Henrotin who served on the Chicago Vice Commission. The report became a best-seller.[9] A second edition was published weeks later, a third edition was published a few months later, and other editions were also printed.[10]

References

1. "Henrotin, Ellen M. (Ellen Martin), 1847-1922. Papers of Ellen Martin Henrotin, 1865-1921: A Finding Aid". Harvard University Library. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
2. Gordon 2013, p. 232.
3. Kelley, Sklar & Palmer 2009, p. 90.
4. O'Sullivan & Gallick 1975, p. 56.
5. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 1918, p. 976.
6. Clapp 2010, p. 24.
7. Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle publishing Company. p. 531. Retrieved June 13, 2022 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
8. "Henrotin, Ellen Martin (1847–1922)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages, Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
9. Scott (March 14, 2019). "Ellen Martin Henrotin, Vice-President of the Women's Branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary". Chicago's 1893 Worlds Fair. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
10. "The Social Evil in Chicago: Chicago History Classics". www.chipublib.org. May 17, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

Attribution

• University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (1918). The Semi-centennial Alumni Record of the University of Illinois (Public domain ed.). University of Illinois. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography

• Clapp, Elizabeth Jane (November 1, 2010). Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04385-2.
• Gordon, Ann D. (January 10, 2013). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-5345-0.
• Kelley, Florence; Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Palmer, Beverly Wilson (2009). The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03404-6.
• O'Sullivan, Judith; Gallick, Rosemary (1975). Workers and allies: female participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976 : exhibition organized by Judith O'Sullivan : catalog. Published for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service by the Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 9780875461304.