Helen Kendrick Johnson

Helen Kendrick Johnson was an American writer, poet, and prominent activist opposing the womens suffrage movement.

Helen Kendrick Johnson was born in Hamilton, New York to her father, Asahel Clark Kendrick a professor in Greek at University of Rochester and mother Anne Elizabeth Kendrick who died in 1851 after the birth of Helens third sister. After the death of her mother, Helen agedspent much of her childhood living with her aunt in Clinton, New York until 1860 when she spent time in Savannah, Georgia with her fathers brothers leaving in 1861 due to the outbreak of the American civil war. In 1863 she enrolled as a student in the Oread Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts and studied there until June, 1864. After the end of the civil war she briefly returned to Savannah and spent the rest of her childhood between there, an aunts house in Utica, New York and her fathers house in Rochester, New York where she remained until her marriage.

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